An epic of intimate, heart-wrenching moments as Kinoshita’s incredibly moving anti-war film centers on a teacher newly posted to a class of first-graders in a poor Japanese seaside village during the late 1920s.
Moving in unexpected ways, this meta-filmic documentary about a director who conducted a series of film classes for a group of German girls in 1968, brings everyone back for a reunion as they revisit those wonderful days when filmmaking seemed to have limitless pedagogical possibilities.
An African migrant crisis film shot as a harrowing adventure—it may not be particularly rewarding but it is a very good entry point for casual moviegoers hoping to better understand the journeys these desperate people take to reach Europe.
A ‘Before Sunrise’-esque gay drama shot with natural realism that brings genuine emotions of honesty, desire and affection to the fore.
The exploitation of religion in a poor village is the subject of Bernal’s best-known, and at times, shocking work, as word spreads about a woman who claims to have visions of the Virgin Mary.
Although a tad plodding in its early stretches, this new Godzilla film combines thrilling spectacle with a grounding in narrative storytelling, as it psychoanalyses and indicts Japanese wartime militarism in hopes of a pacifist change in mentality.
Ann Hui’s horror-comedy is at best an odd curiosity, a way too convoluted genre exercise that still manages to flaunt its film language, as Shu Qi plays a woman who can see ghosts.
One of 2024’s absolute gems, this rapturous, stunningly-edited Sundance award-winning documentary sets the GOATs of American jazz against the tumultuous political history of Congo’s struggle for independence during the decolonisation phase of the Cold War.
An enigmatic mystery that patiently develops and then becomes deeply entwined within its ambiguities, in what is another hypnotic gem by South Korea’s finest working filmmaker.
With characteristic deliberate pacing and being deeply tuned to the subtle rhythms of daily existence, Reichardt explores giving life its tangible meaning through art-making, where we create and present for ourselves and others.
Eternality Tan 