Explore our Cinematic Underground series, which explores the best of indie films. This week’s theme: outsider art.

Dardenne Brothers: The Unknown Girl

Twin filmmakers, the Dardenne brothers love to share naturalistic stories of working class Belgium, from a woman desperate to keep her factory job to a boy who just wants to find his bicycle. Their latest, The Unknown Girl, dips its toe into the thriller genre as it follows a young woman who learns that a stranger rang her doorbell just before being killed and takes it upon herself to investigate.

Jafar Panahi: Taxi

In 2010, Iran slapped Jafar Panahi with a pretty heavy penalty for a filmmaker—a 20-year ban on making films or leaving the country to make them elsewhere. That has not stopped him, though, as his This is Not a Film was made secretly in his apartment, and his latest Taxi, on from April 15, has him posing as a taxi driver to speak with various members of Iranian society.

David Sieveking: Forget Me Not

German filmmaker David Sieveking turns his camera on his mother, who was a protest leader in the student movement of the 1960s, but is now fearful of losing memories of those days to Alzheimer’s in the documentary Forget Me Not.

Lars von Trier: Dancer in the Dark

Danish director Lars von Trier, who has often alienated critics and even his fans and recently announced his upcoming retirement, is the subject of an all-night marathon screening at Ikebukuro art house Shin-Bungeiza. The lineup includes Dancer in the Dark (pictured; 2000) and Breaking the Waves (1996).