Shellshocked American veterans, long sworn to secrecy, open up about their experiences as government guinea pigs. (Plays in: Coffee 70)

A dynamic, hometown look at a brother experiencing a summer impasse, directed by Columbia native Kamau Bilal. (Plays with: Lovers of the Night)

Years after the murder of his daughter, a musician finds a way to express his pain. (Plays in: Red Wine 73)

This black-and-white film follows a vigilante “community court” in Detroit, led by the charismatic Rev. Malik Shabazz. (Plays in: Coffee 70)

Constructed from footage of every regular-season concussion in the NFL this past year, this film transforms these collisions with terrifying balletic grace. (Plays with: Combat Obscura)

A split-screen sensory smorgasbord of found footage dessert advertisements versus natural disasters. (Plays in: Lager 72)

A furious and vulnerable memoir covering four years of the director’s childhood as an undocumented immigrant. (Plays in: Kombucha 71)

Somewhere in a lush Cuban forest, a shamanistic widow prays for her son. (Plays in: Red Wine 73)

Two brothers spar and play in a bubble of their own until one threatens to break out. (Plays with: The Next Guardian)

On the making and promoting of Stone Mountain, Georgia, the KKK-built monument to the Confederate States. (Plays with: Our New President)

A slow-burn portrait of a junk shop, deep in de-industrialized America, and its idiosyncratic owner. (Plays in: Coffee 70)

A weathered man is partially visible in a rear-view mirror as he relates getting mixed up with the wrong kind. (Plays in: Kombucha 71)

The Quantification has occurred and religious experience is no longer within easy reach, so a band of experimental dancers seek transcendence. (Plays in: Lager 72)

Women’s testimonies of dreams, fears and trauma unfold against the dramatic backdrop of a rupturing Earth – molten lava, avalanches and all. (Plays in: Lager 72)

Prepare to be charmed and disturbed by this immersion into the Brazilian child pageant scene. (Plays in: Red Wine 73)

Somewhere in the Umbrian hills, Fouad is lovelorn about his dear Daniela, who despite his mean tajine is decidedly not in love. (Plays with: António e Catarina)

A documentary musical that floats around a small Colombian village that reveals its landmark status in the New World. (Plays in: Red Wine 73)

Inspired by Pizzagate, the director re-examines a conspiracy from his youth and uncorks a sometimes funny, sometimes serious meditation on skepticism. (Plays in: Kombucha 71)

On Halloween, the director and her friend Skype each other with creepy stories of a particular bent. (Plays with: António e Catarina)

A pop-Marxist history of mathematics that spoofs graphic-heavy, educational videos. (Plays in: Lager 72)

In the face of historically significant changes, an honorable figure finds a way to connect. (Plays in: Kombucha 71)

A richly atmospheric film about a beach in Split, Croatia (as featured in Playing Men), it goes from the libidinous to the elegiac, ending in a morning-after Leonard Cohen singalong. (Plays with: Playing Men)

In the Republic of Georgia, a hulking man arrives with a van full of clothes, toys and household items: Money is meaningless — all that matters is potatoes. (Plays with: Artemio)

A skewering of local news cadences that travels to Kansas, where Libertarian-leaning politicians fast-track the world’s largest slide. (Plays in: Kombucha 71)