While on book tour for her memoir in 2020, Annie Ernaux returns to her hometown of Rouen for a book signing. A sudden dizziness overcomes her when she arrives, plunging her thoughts back to the summer of 1958 when as a naïve young camp counselor, she first experienced the cruelty of other girls and the bitterness of sexual initiation.

Vilnius, 2022. High-flying executive Marija (Zygimante Elena Jakstaite) chooses the worst possible moment to inform her husband Vytas (Marius Repsys) she wants a divorce: just one day before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Suddenly the couple must navigate the process of separation as it collides with a refugee and mid-life crisis.

Guy Maddin’s early masterpiece—newly restored in 4K—takes place in a 19th-century Alpine village where the wary residents—adult, child and animal!—must speak softly and tread lightly lest they cause an avalanche.

The inside story behind Keith Jarrett’s fabled record-breaking 1975 concert in Cologne. 

Visionary composer and performer Meredith Monk overcame hostile critics to become one of the great artists of her generation. In her seventh decade of creativity, she ponders how such singular work can go on without her.