In the summer of 1983, 17-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) joins his parents at their idyllic rural villa. When he meets Oliver (Armie Hammer), his father's handsome and cocky American intern, a furtive romance unfolds. Luca Guadagnino's swooning adaptation of André Aciman's coming-of-age novel captures the pleasures and pains of first love. The film's gentle eroticism, lush visual style and deeply felt performances have made it an instant classic.
Read MoreThrough archival footage, interviews and animation, Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin follows the late author’s journey in developing her own style, while examining the feminist, anti-capitalist and environmental themes in the societies she imagined for her books. Arwen Curry’s directorial debut is a careful reflection on LeGuin’s legacy as a world-builder and the result of an almost decade long conversation with contemporary authors such as Margaret Atwood, Neil Gaiman and China Mieville, as well as the author herself.
Read MoreAdult siblings Julian (Noel David Taylor) and Sunny (Sophie Kargman) live in a suffocating codependent relationship, rarely leaving their cramped apartment. Their domestic routine is suddenly threatened when Sunny begins dating David (also Noel David Taylor), who looks exactly like Julian. Under the hypnotic influence of TV infomercials, brother and sister begin to unravel. Amanda Kramer's triumphantly weird, low budget psycho thriller is a funny and unnerving study of fractured identity. Through a minimalist narrative, uncanny compositions, and an almost playfully nightmarish tone, Kramer examines Sunny's desperate struggle for independence and its psychic fallout.
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