Xochitl (Ariela Barer), an environmental activist who grew up in the shadow of an oil refinery, is tired of the small-step demonstrations mounted by her college and wants to make a bold statement against the fossil fuel industry. Michael (Forrest Goodluck) is an amateur pyrotechnician who runs a DIY explosives community online. Shawn (Marcus Scribner)…
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Infinity Pool
Some six years after the publication of his debut novel, the well of inspiration has already run dry for James (Alexander Skarsgård). He goes on vacation to La Tolqa with Em (Cleopatra Coleman), his wife from a wealthy family, to hopefully unlock the idea for his next book. At the resort, they meet fans of…
Broker
Sang-hyeon (Song Kang-ho) and Dong-soo (Dong-won Gang) run an elaborate scheme in which they take babies left at a drop box of the local church which they work across the street from. Once they have the infants, they find parents on the adoption black market who are willing to pay a handsome sum for the…
Triangle of Sadness
An all-expenses paid cruise on a luxury yacht could not have come at a better time for influencer Yaya (Charlbi Dean) and male model Carl (Harris Dickinson) whose relationship is on the rocks after another heated exchange about money. Once aboard, they are stuck in close quarters with a host of oddballs with more money…
Crimes of the Future
In the near future, humans have evolved in such a way that they no longer feel pain and are unsusceptible to infectious diseases. These developments have opened the doorway to a whole new world of body modification. As the saying goes “surgery is the new sex.” Saul Tenser (Viggo Mortensen) and Caprice (Léa Seydoux) are…
Petite Maman
After the passing of her grandmother, a young girl, Nelly (Joséphine Sanz), assists her parents in cleaning out the matriarch’s old home. Full of grief, Nelly’s mother (Nina Meurisse) leaves her childhood home to be packed up by her husband (Stéphane Varupenne). Nelly grows bored in packing up the house and goes outside to play…
The Worst Person in the World
Julie (Renate Reinsve) is a young woman who feels stuck as she drifts through life trying to find out who she wants to be. Through multiple relationships, jobs, and friendships, she slowly begins to find her path, but it does not come easy. She has to leave some people behind her in order to grow,…
Memoria
Jessica (Tilda Swinton), travels to Columbia to meet her sister Karen (Agnes Brekke) who has fallen ill. One morning, Jessica is jolted awake by a loud, singular bang that rattles through her body, yet only she can hear. She meets with Hernán (Juan Pablo Urrego), a sound technician, who helps recreate the sound. Her journey towards discovery…
Flee
Jonas Poher Rasmussen is a Danish documentarian, and while he is featured in Neon’s Flee, this is not his story. Rather, it is the story of Amin Nawabi, a childhood friend of Rasmussen who opens up to the filmmaker about his youth. He recounts what life was like growing up in Afghanistan in the 1980s, fleeing to Russia and eventually Denmark, as…
The Marquee Topic 