DAHOMEY (Senegal)

October 23 at 6:45 p.m.

Screening to be followed by a conversation with director, producer and writer Mati Diop.

Winner of the Golden Bear award at the Berlin Film Festival, this film from acclaimed French/Senegalese actor-turned-filmmaker Mati Diop explores the complex questions surrounding the repatriation of cultural artifacts. BUY TICKETS

THE SEED OF THE SACRED FIG (Germany)

October 23 at 8:45 p.m.

October 27 at 8:15 p.m.

Mohammad Rasoulof’s daring drama about two daughters defying their conservative father courted controversy in his native Iran, not only for its allegorical critique of the regime and depictions of real-life protests but also for its realistic depiction of women without head scarves on at home – which has been censored in Iranian cinema since 1979. Rasoulof, facing a lengthy jail sentence and flogging for having made the film, fled Iran ahead of its triumphant world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won a Special Jury Prize. BUY TICKETS

VERMIGLIO (Italy)

October 24 at 12:00 p.m.

October 27 at 2:30 p.m.

October 27 screening to be followed by a conversation with director Maura Delpero.

Director Maura Delpero examines the intersection of midcentury gender politics, imposed tradition and religion in this year’s Silver Lion Grand Jury Winner from the Venice Film Festival. BUY TICKETS

UNDER THE VOLCANO (Poland)

October 24 at 12:30 p.m.

October 27 at 11:00 a.m.

U.S. Premiere

Led by strikingly authentic performances that capture coexisting feelings of guilt, dread and relief, UNDER THE VOLCANO is a compelling observation of complex family dynamics and displacement. BUY TICKETS

GRAND TOUR (Portugal)

October 24 at 3:00 p.m.

October 25 at 11:30 a.m.

Portuguese filmmaker Miguel Gomes won the Best Director award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for this spellbinding travelogue, where time, place, language and culture collide into an intoxicating masterwork. BUY TICKETS

UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE (UNE LANGUE UNIVERSELLE) (Canada)

October 24 at 9:30 p.m.

October 25 at 12:00 p.m.

Both screenings to be followed by a conversation with filmmaker Matthew Rankin and writer and producer Ila Firouzabadi.

Winner of the first-ever Directors’ Fortnight Audience Award in Cannes, the delightfully offbeat second feature from Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin imagines a parallel universe somewhere between Winnipeg, Montreal and Tehran, where the dominant language is Persian, and all signs are in Arabic script.  BUY TICKETS

I’M STILL HERE (Brazil)

October 25 at 5:30 p.m.

Screening to be followed by a conversation with director Walter Salles and actress Fernanda Torres.

Based on true events and the bestselling memoir by Marcelo Rubens Paiva about his family, I’M STILL HERE – directed by Walter Salles – explores early 1970s Brazil, where the military dictatorship is tightening its grip on civil society. BUY TICKETS

SANTOSH (UK)

October 27 at 11:30 a.m.

Screening to be followed by a conversation with director and writer Sandhya Suri.

Through startling twists and turns, Indian filmmaker Sandhya Suri’s thrilling noirish policier takes on crimes against women, caste discrimination and police corruption with a powerful global resonance. BUY TICKETS 

SUJO (Mexico)

October 27 at 5:45 p.m.

Screening to be followed by a conversation with filmmaker Fernanda Valadez.

Nature and nurture clash in this lyrical coming-of-age tale from directors Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez, which won the World Cinema Dramatic Grand Jury Prize at Sundance. BUY TICKETS