Woody Allen’s latest, the adventures of a traveling dog and a surreal escape drama with a dead body as a main character are among the intriguing independent releases that will be on area screens this summer.

Tilda Swinton stars as a Madonna-like rock singer whose life is thrown into turmoil when her ex-lover and record producer (Ralph Fiennes, in a scenestealing turn) shows up on her doorstep in A Bigger Splash…Director Todd Solondz (Happiness) returns with the story of a dachshund who gives joy to its various masters in Weiner-Dog...Harry Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe, stars as a dead man who gives a man (Paul Dano) stranded in the wilderness hope in Swiss Army Man…Viggo Mortensen stars as a secluded father living in the Pacifi c Northwest who must leave his comfort zone and six children to live in Seattle in Captain Fantastic…The life of editor Max Perkins, who worked with Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Wolfe, takes center stage in Genius…Woody Allen’s latest, Café Society, takes place in 1930s Hollywood and features Kristen Stewart, Jesse Eisenberg, Steve Carrell and Blake Lively…Anna Kendrick lends her considerable charm to The Hollars, the story of a young man (John Krasinski) who reluctantly returns to his hometown…Southside with You takes a fi ctionalized look at the fi rst date between Barack Obama and Michelle Robinson.