Adam Sandler plays an astronaut who realizes that the marriage he left behind on Earth might not be waiting for him when he returns. Free screening, courtesy of Netflix. With director Johan Renck in person!

This Oscar-nominated film is based on Deborah Ellis’s novel about a young girl, Parvana, growing up under Taliban's Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan as the War on Terror begins. Followed by a panel discussion about representation of Muslims and Ramadan in film and media.

When his hairdressing salon is destroyed by the municipality, Romeo must leave the high street of Toamasina for a harder-to-find shack in a residential neighborhood. Madagascan director Michael Andrianaly will appear in person with his wonderful documentary Nofinofy on 3/8.

The Working on It program offers a lab-like environment for work-in-progress screenings, workshops, and discussions about the artistic process. This year’s edition will take place during the afternoons of March 13–15, and is open to ...

For First Look 2024 opening night on 3/13, see the Sundance-awarded drama in which a young man, orphaned by the Mexican drug cartels, grows up in the shadow of violence. Directed by Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez, two of the finest filmmakers of their generation.

The Working on It program offers a lab-like environment for work-in-progress screenings, workshops, and discussions about the artistic process.

For the seventh consecutive year, First Look presents Jury award–winning graduate and undergraduate student films from the Jonathan B. Murray Center for Documentary Journalism at the Missouri School of Journalism.

Young women in the remote Mexican town of El Echo exude vivacious optimism while shouldering disproportionately gendered responsibilities of family, farm life, and town. See it 3/14 with director Tatiana Huezo in person for First Look 2024.

The Working on It program offers a lab-like environment for work-in-progress screenings, workshops, and discussions about the artistic process. This year’s edition will take place during the afternoons of March 13–15, and is open to ...

The magnetic pull between artist and filmmaker yields something beguiling and precious, celebrating the fiery Philly even as she and the world she fought to protect are being actively extinguished.

Playful, elusive, and tactile, these eclectic works are unified by their filmmakers’ attempts to orient themselves in a world of constant, turbulent flux.

Lois Patiño’s latest inquiry into the spiritual valences of cinema travels first to the temples of Laos and then to the shores of Tanzania by way of the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Screening 3/17 as part of First Look 2024.

Graham Swon’s sophomore feature, displaying a remarkable devotion to craft, combining elements of Gothic horror, pulp mystery, and period romance, screens 3/17 as part of First Look 2024.

In the First Look 2024 closing night film, five recent high-school graduates escape small-town Oregon for one last adventure together, trekking 500 miles westward for their first visit to the Pacific coast. The latest film from Bill and Turner Ross is a joyous exploration (and detonation) of the borderlands of reality, mythology, narrative, improvisation, the discernable, and the ineffable.

From acclaimed filmmaker Goran Stolevski (Of an Age) comes a story exploring the universal truths of family: the ones we’re born into and the ones we find for ourselves.

Our 3/28 opening night includes a reception; virtual reality showcase; and a selection of short films that explore the multitude of ways autistic people navigate dating and relationships.

This dramatic feature follows two estranged sisters forced together by their mother’s sudden death.

These four well-crafted animated shorts are perfect for kids of all ages, taking viewers into fantastical, vibrant worlds.

These inventive films offer innovative experimental film techniques, and unique storylines.

Spirit Riser is a genre-bending fantasy with elements of horror, comedy, action, surrealism, and martial arts from rising New York City filmmaker Dylan Mars Greenberg, who will appear in person!

A Tokyo office worker (Rinko Kikuchi) finds a battered VHS tape of a fictional film and becomes convinced the movie’s lost satchel of money is real is David Zellner's breakthrough comic mystery. Screening with filmmakers Nathan Zellner and David Zellner in person 3/31.

Paul Newman directed this sweeping saga set in the Pacific Northwest based on the celebrated novel by Ken Kesey about a hard-bitten Oregon lumber family that bucks their close-knit community to deliver a shipment of logs during a strike. Screening 3/31.

In the forests of North America, a family of Sasquatches—possibly the last of their enigmatic kind—embark on an absurdist, poignant journey over the course of one year. Screening 3/31 with directors Nathan and David Zellner in person!