Films

In Florian Zeller’s elegant psychological drama, Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz are successful professionals (architect and editor, respectively) married to their work, and to each other. Paul Dano, Stephen Graham, and Patrick Schwarzenegger co-star.

In the forests of southern Nepal, a mother searches for her missing daughter as wild elephants roam the night, in a haunting and tender story of chosen family, belonging, and survival.

Against the backdrop of Chile’s transition to democracy, a disappearance at a ski resort pulls a nine-year-old girl into the adults’ pact of silence in director Manuela Martelli’s unnerving political allegory.

Andrey Zvyagintsev’s first feature in a decade, this chilling reimagining of La femme infidèle and Unfaithful masterfully explores the depths of corruption in Putin’s Russia through a story of crime and infidelity.

Noah Segan delivers an elegant love letter to one of cinema’s favorite towns through the five-borough odyssey of an old-world pickpocket trying to make it right with a crime family he accidentally antagonized.

Mining the country’s past through a personal New York story of derailed ambitions, James Gray dismantles the notion of the American Dream with a harrowing, ‘80s-set crime-thriller. His finest film to date feels like a new classic.

Famed author Patricia Highsmith (Helen Mirren) and Alden Ehrenreich's ambitious publishing rep face off during a fiendishly playful (and completely imaginary) mystery as sharp and witty as a murderous Tom Ripley novel.

A pair of CIA agents, Easter Island, and a mysterious assignment: Martin McDonagh delivers a darkly funny, visually stunning thriller fueled by the irresistible chemistry of John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell.

Mining the country’s past through a personal New York story of derailed ambitions, James Gray dismantles the notion of the American Dream with a harrowing, ‘80s-set crime-thriller. His finest film to date feels like a new classic.

Sam Rockwell will be honored with a special MVFF Tribute Program, featuring a screening of Wild Horse Night, clips from his career, and an in-depth conversation, and preceded by an earlier screening of Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, another Martin McDonagh film starring Rockwell, whose performance earned him an Academy Award.