Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival, this engrossing psychological study from Turkish master Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Once Upon a Time in Anatolia) has justly earned comparisons to the best of Chekov and Bergman.  The proprietors of a picturesque hotel ensconced in the Cappadocian mountainside, a wealthy, vain former actor, his young wife, and his recently divorced sister pass the chilly offseason engaged in a series of increasingly barbed tête–à–têtes.  Written with novelistic detail, Winter Sleep grapples with morality with an exactness that is fiercely intelligent and overwhelmingly powerful. (MK)

Widely acknowledged as the godfather of New Argentine Cinema, writer/director Rejtman is back in top form with this characteristically digressive and absurdist dramedy, his first fiction feature in eleven years.  When sixteen year-old Mariano finds a gun in his family home, he inexplicably shoots himself—twice.  Even more inexplicably, he survives, and the remainder of the film hops between narrative threads to track the impact of Mariano’s impulse on his friends and family.  “[Rejtman has] one of the sharpest, savviest, and must humane comic sensibilities in contemporary cinema… his fatalistic, obsessive-compulsive, bone-dry jokes get funnier and more profound the longer they are kept up” (Cinema Scope).