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The team behind last year’s THE BRUTALIST, co-writers Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet, return with another ambitious swing for the fences, this time with Fastvold in the director’s chair. With stunning celluloid cinematography and an astounding score and soundscape, THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE plumbs the life and times of Ann Lee (Amanda Seyfried), the founder of the Shaker movement and one of pre-Revolutionary America’s most seminal religious figures.

An unexpected smash hit at the Japanese box office, KOKUHO is Lee Sang-il’s long-gestating passion project, a gripping tale of friendship and rivalry in the world of Kabuki that weaves an irreplaceable story of heritage, cultural preservation and identity — shaped both on and by the stage — and unfolding in grand fashion across five decades. Nominated for the Academy Award® for Best Makeup and Hairstyling

What begins as an intimate portrait of Russian independent journalists facing persecution by Putin’s regime takes a drastic turn when Russia starts a full-scale war in Ukraine and they are all forced into exile. The film offers a front row seat to how authoritarianism works and the lives of those who resist, which becomes all the more globally relevant every day.