Every year, there are films that play the festival circuit that come out of nowhere and surprise us. This year was no different. While films like “A Star is Born,” “If Beale Street Could Talk,” and “Roma” grabbed all the headlines coming out of the festivals, films like “The Heiresses” debuted to critical acclaim and should be on your radar.

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The visiting women — and it is always women — appraise the neatly laid out ornaments, cutlery and linens in a large colonial drawing room with impatient disinterest. They’re like already sated carrion birds idly picking at a carcass. Or that’s how they must look to Chela (Berlin Best Actress Ana Brun), the timorous mistress of this once-plush Paraguayan home, who watches its gradual dismantling with startled, dismayed eyes from shadowy hallways through doors that creak ajar.

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