The Kindergarten Teacher (Dir. Sara Colangelo)

Stuck in Staten Island, married to a kind but oblivious husband, and living with kids that mostly ignore her, 40-year-old Lisa Spinelli (Maggie Gyllenhaal) plods through her days teaching in a kindergarten with growing numbness. Her one source of joy is an evening poetry class. But one day everything changes - Lisa discovers that a five-year-old boy in her class may be the poet she can only dream of being.

Maggie Gyllenhaal gives a captivating performance in Sara Colangelo’s English-language remake of Israeli filmmaker Nadav Lapid’s challenging 2014 drama. The film won the Best Director Award in Sundance this year.