ordinary life elevated to significance

Boyhood
2014 · Richard Linklater

The Gin Game
1981 · Mike Nichols

You Have to Come and See It
2022 · Jonás Trueba

Roma
1972 · Federico Fellini

The Whole Town’s Talking
1935 · John Ford

Russian Lullabies
1993 · Nobuhiko Obayashi

Tokyo-ga
1985 · Wim Wenders

Aquí está Heraclio Bernal/Here Comes Heraclio Bernal
1957 · Roberto Gavaldón

The Gleaners and I
2000 · Agnès Varda

Blind Chance
1987 · Krzysztof Kieślowski

Moi, un noir
1958 · Jean Rouch

Notting Hill
1999 · Roger Michell

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
1927 · F. W. Murnau

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
1965 · Sergei Parajanov

Divine Intervention
2002 · Elia Suleiman

Frankenstein
2025 · Guillermo del Toro

Taste of Cherry
1997 · Abbas Kiarostami

Touki Bouki
1973 · Djibril Diop Mambéty

Winter Sleep
2014 · Nuri Bilge Ceylan

Family Life
1971 · Ken Loach

Ikarie XB-1
1963 · Jindřích Polák

The Tribe
2014 · Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi

Whisky
2004 · Juan Pablo Rebella

Cactus River
2012 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul

On the Job
2013 · Erik Matti

¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?
1984 · Pedro Almodóvar

Tulpan
2008 · Sergei Dvortsevoy

2001: A Space Odyssey
1968 · Stanley Kubrick

Tourettes
1971 · David Cronenberg

Camion
2012 · Rafaël Ouellet

Me You Them
2000 · Andrucha Waddington

Patrick
2019 · Tim Mielants

Salesman
1969 · Maysles Brothers

The Garden
1995 · Martin Šulík

The Almost Man
2012 · Martin Lund

Babes
2026 · Pamela Adlon

Agito: Superpower War
2026 · Ryuta Tasaki

City Life
1990 · Béla Tarr & Mrinal Sen

Calle Malaga
2026 · Maryam Touzani

Daadi Ki Shaadi
2026 · Ashish R. Mohan

Deool Band 2
2026 · Pravin Tarde

Gohan
2026 · Nattawut Poonpiriya

Signs of Mr. Plum
2026 · Urszula Morga

Qingtong & Kuihua
2026 · Chen Kun-hou