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In the days following October 7, jazz musician Y. and his wife surrender themselves and their art to Israel's social, political and military elite and become entrusted with a mission — to compose a new national anthem. Fierce, maximalist and intentionally confrontational, this incendiary work from Israeli director Nadav Lapid (SYNONYMS) is a blistering exploration of nationalism, art and identity.

A freelance art restoration specialist receives a tantalizing proposition from the heirs of an ailing painter: apprehend and complete a series of long-abandoned paintings from their father’s London home, and receive a third of the profits from the sale of the paintings following his imminent death. Michaela Coel and Ian McKellen make a brilliant pairing in Steven Soderbergh’s incisively witty chamber comedy about art, commerce and avarice.

Palestine, 1936. As villages across Mandatory Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rural home and the restless energy of Jerusalem, longing for a future beyond the growing unrest. Director Annemarie Jacir moves her story forward at pace, balancing plot lines, tones and character motivations against shaping forces of economics, politics and identity.

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.