Last Swim may wade out a little too far at points, but it’s the grounding nature of the young performances that  makes it a day to remember.

While not a reinvention of the genre, House of Eden demonstrates a command of the form by someone who knows it intimately. 

In all aspects, there’s a punk rock feeling to Underground Orange. From its avant garde presentation to its ragtag group of people living on the fringes, the film is angry about the world it's living in.

Magnetosphere is for the weirdo in all of us who believes in the beauty the world has to offer. You might just have to look for it in a place you didn’t expect.

Like the famous line from Casablanca, Oh, Hi! will always have its bizarro farmhouse in upstate New York, even if its love story won’t go down in the history books like Bogart and Bergman’s.

Reality, though, as Drowning Dry argues, isn’t what’s most important. What matters is our memory and our perception of our life events. 

Nuked is a stoner flick that’s lighter on the laughs and heavy on the weed, with an unexpected heart beneath the haze.

The ones on the fringes and the ones behind the police badges are both trying to mold the next generation to continue on with the ideals they believe in. We all are, but Sovereign focuses on masculinity’s toxic role in parenting the next generation of men. 

To wake up and live every day, The Dreadful Place says, is the bravest, hardest choice a person can make.

FTOYS is a pastel homage to the grindhouse greats seen through a contemporary lens that introduces the world to the unstoppable force that is Annapurna Sriram.

Out of Plain Sight is a masterful documentary that tells the decades-spanning story of what is essentially a Pandora’s Box of forever chemicals.

M3GAN 2.0 is hopeful about its robotic main character and the humans surrounding her. We’re better when we learn from our past mistakes. Whether that be murdering four people and a dog or being the one who invented said murderous robot.

So Fades the Light is a look at life in the aftermath of being told you have a purpose. What then? Who are you now?

28 Years Later is a cautionary tale of what happens when we ignore the problems at hand in favor of creating a sense of normalcy, no matter how flimsy.

The dinosaurs featured in Rebirth are the result of genetic splicing and cross-species mutations. It’s hard to ignore the fact that the film itself feels like a mirror of this. Borrowing bits and pieces of the films that came before it, the plot beats that have proven to be successful, to create something that is inherently off, despite making sense on paper.

JessZilla is a warm documentary that wholeheartedly embraces the girl at its center – her grit, the ones who love her, and a passion that never wavered. 

I Want to Feel Fun works as a loose groundwork for something larger. There are gems within the short film that just need a little more polishing and a little more space to breathe and grow.

An essential documentary about the way the human spirit can push us beyond what we thought possible, Row of Life is a celebration of our stories and their ability to transcend our time on earth.

It’s mortifying to be known so intimately, yet Materialists would argue that’s the only box that needs to be checked.

Horsegirls is about the people we leave behind, the communities that shape us, and the acceptance we’re all searching for. The road to make it isn’t easy and it’s certainly messy, but sometimes a horse head on the handle of a broom is the vehicle that gets us there.