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This month’s picks include an unconventional French rom-com, a triptych about Indigenous women in Mexico, a provincial Tamil satire and more.

A 40-year-old woman, believed to be blessed with divine powers, has her sexual awakening in Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s debut feature.

Alice Diop’s observational documentary is a beautiful, loose-limned portrait of Paris’s suburbs.

This documentary about Syrian refugee artists explores the role of art in the face of war and displacement.

Mohammad Rasoulof’s scathing drama about corruption in Iran is striking in its blunt rage, if somewhat exasperating in its monotony.

This sentimental drama about an upstanding cop caught up in the 1974 school desegregation conflict in Boston recycles tired white-savior clichés.

This month’s picks include a Kafkaesque Tamil head trip, an Argentine queer drama, a Rwandan girls-school thriller and more.

Over two decades, babies are born, elders die, young people move on, but a home remains, even though visitors dwindle.

This month’s picks include an Argentine heist thriller, a whimsical Palestinian romance, a German period drama and more.

In Oren Gerner’s semi-fictional portrait of his family, a father grapples with retirement, poor health and a growing sense of obsolescence.