Two strangers find a special bond through an online cinema forum’s email service in Morita’s progressively emotional take on what it means to connect with another human being in the wake of a lonelier, more technological world.
Kapadia’s sophomore feature expertly blends realism and poeticism as her filmmaking of sincerity and subtlety brings us into three Indian women’s perspectives and feelings as they contemplate their lives’ paths, which are uncertain yet paradoxically preordained.
One of the most iconic queer-themed documentaries of all time sees several trans women, drag queens and voguers reveal their passion and desire to be recognised like any other normal human being as they search for a queer utopia in New York’s Harlem.
Yang’s sweeping masterpiece and deeply affecting picture is one of the greatest films ever made, dissecting 1960s Taiwanese society through the eyes of its youths and street gangs in search of collective identity and individual meaning.
Baker’s Cannes hit promises a volatile, anxiety-fest of a cinematic experience, pumped up by Mikey Madison’s outstanding performance as a stripper who has a ‘fairytale marriage’ to the son of a Russian oligarch, though it doesn’t always work triumphantly in its latter half.
Still needs another much tighter recut, this now unbanned Thai film about a cult of dog-worshipping fanatics is at times intolerable with its B-movie vibe though it unexpectedly turns into something revelatory about the meaning of ‘God’.
Szulkin’s work of political resistance calls to attention what it feels like to be fed propaganda 24/7, in this artsy sci-fi picture about a newscaster forced by the authorities to stick to their script of welcoming the mysterious aliens.
One of Morita’s most popular films sees Koji Yakusho and Hitomi Kuroki give exceptional performances as their characters turn extramarital affairs into a tempting fantasy and radical gesture.
As highly personal a documentary as it gets about seeking for truth and justice, featuring the derring-do of the journalist-director who was sexually assaulted by a powerful man many years ago as she painstakingly attempts to put the demon to the sword.
Minervini’s work about the real America i.e. the disturbia of the working-class provokes with its sheer no-bullshit honesty, with an invisible camera that gives zero distinction between drama and documentary.
