(Angela Schanelec, 2019, Germany/Serbia, 106 minutes)

A mainstay of 2019’s film festival circuit, including appearances at Berlin (where it won Best Director), Toronto, and New York, Angela Schanelec’s I Was at Home, But… is poised to be her international breakthrough. Unusually told with a cryptic style that sometimes encroaches on magical realism, I Was at Home, But… looks at the challenges of life from the perspective of a widowed mother of two in her 40s who finds inspiration in the small community from which she and her children hail.

In German with English subtitles.