By Cáit Murphy Michal Vinik’s multilingual second feature unfurls intensely and precisely as it sensitively frames the tempestuous relationships of two Ukrainian sisters seeking a better life in Israel. Valeria (Dasha Tvoronovich) is indeed getting married, but something feels off in the film’s opening shot of a woman’s silhouette in a frosted window and turbulent…

By Cáit Murphy This episodic, animated adaptation of several short stories by Murakami Haruki turns its melancholic focus on three characters living in Tokyo following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. Komura (Ryan Bommarito) and Mr. Katagiri (Marcelo Arroyo) work in the lending department of a downsizing Tokyo bank. At home, Komura’s unresponsive wife Kyoko…

By Cáit Murphy Taking place in a dormant village in Valencian orange-growing country, this vivid coming-of-age feature plays with documentary elements while ultimately eliding the magic of its folkloric premise. Seventeen-year-old Ana (Luna Pamiés) is the daughter of single mother and bar owner Isabella (Bárbara Lennie); Ana’s boyfriend José (Alberto Olmo), a pigeon-racing hobbyist, is…