THEY SAY NOTHING STAYS THE SAME Joe Odagiri directed this drama set in Japan during the Meiji era it concerns a ferryman (Akira Emoto) whose job is becoming outmoded. With Greene giving the men lead authorial credit, “Procession” follows them as they go through a form of drama therapy and film scenes from their pasts. In “Procession,” Greene collaborates with six survivors of childhood abuse in the Catholic Church. PROCESSION Existing somewhere on the outer edges of documentary, Robert Greene’s two preceding features, “Kate Plays Christine” and “Bisbee ’17,” both explored the ethics of re-enacting a traumatic event. PAPER & GLUE The artist JR (who collaborated with Agnès Varda on “Faces Places”) documents his own working process on projects in France, Brazil and the United States. Set in a dystopian future, the film is said to speak directly to Canada’s history of trying to erase Indigenous culture. NIGHT RAIDERS A First Nations mother (Elle-Maija Tailfeathers) must work with a group of fellow Indigenous vigilantes to save her daughter (Brooklyn Letexier-Hart) from being trained as a soldier by the state. The documentary promises insight into what makes Buttigieg, now the secretary of transportation, tick. MAYOR PETE Jesse Moss, one of two directors of the acclaimed “Boys State,” followed Pete Buttigieg during his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination. LOVE IS LOVE IS LOVE Eleanor Coppola (the director of “Paris Can Wait” and Francis Ford Coppola’s better half) directed this triptych of stories that concern, well, love, with Rita Wilson, Cybill Shepherd and Rosanna Arquette among the cast members.

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