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Breaking point: two inventive portraits of women who explode—North Pole, and It's Raining Frogs Outside—stand out in the 2022 festival's short-film programs

Tangled web: with The Girl and the Spider, the Zürcher brothers craft a formalist fable of Surrealist uncanny and combustible yearning

Beast mode: Robert Eggers's latest, blood-spattered epic runs a grand Viking myth through the meat grinder of earthly existence

Rising stars: a roundup of must-see titles from this year's showcase of new and emerging auteurs

Front lines: the directors of the 1979 documentary on the Industrial Workers of the World discuss the film’s new restoration and its continuing relevance

Starry-eyed: Daniel Fairfax's two-part history traces the enduring influence of the foundational French journal's most militant years

Spinning a yarn: Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis’s shape-shifting, myth-infused feature is a Matryoshka doll of tales within tales

Time and again: the Ukrainian filmmaker discusses his latest archival epic, the repetitions of history, and his expulson from the Ukrainian Film Academy

Zero gravity: Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh’s banlieue fantasia is a politically charged fable set in a condemned Parisian housing project

Motor away: Barney Platts-Mills’s newly restored gem is a tale of a teen struggling in a blighted urban landscape that is also a vivid document of the less-than-swinging side of late-’60s London