The Museum of Modern Art

Iranian American director Anahita Ghazvinizadeh exposes the alienation of a Middle Eastern refugee in the US Midwest through a letter written to a grandmother she left behind.

In French Martinican playwright and director Julius-Amédée Laou’s Open Mic Solitaire, a young Black man whose brother was murdered by skinheads hijacks a French Caribbean radio station to deliver a call to arms against systematic racist violence—and society’s general indifference to it.

From West Berlin to North Carolina via New York City and Wisconsin, Werner Herzog follows the wandering steps of Stroszek, a street performer who, after finishing a prison sentence, leaves Germany for the US with an eccentric neighbor and his prostitute girlfriend, Eva, to escape her pimp’s continuous harassment. Stroszek, played by Herzog’s real-life friend Bruno Stroszek, finds work as a mechanic while Eva works in a Wisconsin diner, both trying to make ends meet and fulfill their American dream.