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Told over eight chapters, this visceral investigative essay documentary from director Valerie Veatch is an urgent excavation of the philosophical, cultural and political forces driving the global A.I. boom.

Set during the height of Stalin’s Great Terror, the great Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa’s pitch-black absurdist tale concerns an idealistic government-appointed prosecutor who sets out to expose the mistreatment of a dissident Bolshevik writer who has been jailed and tortured without evidence of wrongdoing. Loznitsa constructs his story with a patient yet unmistakable sense of mounting dread, focusing on the devastating minutiae that allows fascism to function in our world.

As both director and cinematographer, debut filmmaker Brittany Shyne immerses the viewer in the absorbing rhythms and intimate materiality of African-American farm life in Georgia. As government support for Black farmers dwindles, exquisite black-and-white imagery lovingly captures the rough-worn hands, faces and tools-of-trade of octogenarian patriarchs fighting to preserve their family legacies and century-old homesteads.