A seminal work of ‘60s Turkish cinema, Akad’s neorealist Western features the legendary Yilmaz Guney whose character finds himself at the crossroads between social progress and lawlessness.
Kaurismaki’s style remains unmistakable, but this isn’t a particularly edifying effort as two affection-shy strangers elusively seek romance and companionship in lonely Helsinki.
An Austrian woman goes to Kenya in search of intimacy and connection as Seidl, in his usual provocative mode, explores ‘sex tourism’ as both a curse and an antidote to sheer human loneliness.
Lanthimos delivers arguably his finest film to date with this erotic surrealist odyssey featuring Emma Stone in a truly stunning performance as a woman brought back to life by an eccentric scientist.
Kaurismaki’s confident first solo feature already contains the hallmarks of his sober, deadpan style, in the guise of a loose adaptation of Dostoevsky’s famous text.
Bursts of warped creativity punctuate this rather inscrutable Singaporean experimental drama about the discomfiting nature of personal fantasies and quiet acceptance in matters of life and death.
Beguiling if also bewildering, this newly-restored pre-’79 Iranian rarity is ultimately elusive and muddling in its thematic exploration of paranoia, traditions and taboos, as a mysterious wounded man drifts ashore on a boat.
One of the most chillingly unique Holocaust films in decades, Glazer’s cold and calculated take on human complicity in enabling atrocities is told from the perspective of a high-ranking Nazi officer raising his family in a luxurious compound built right next to a concentration camp in Auschwitz.
One of Tarr’s best-known works as a quiet Hungarian town experiences an unprecedented disruption when a mysterious attraction arrives, in what appears to be a potent political and moral allegory on the evil that lurks within peoples and systems.
Tong’s long-gestating new film is a work of poise, as much a lament for the ‘lost’ Chinese-educated generation who found difficulty existing in English-prioritised Singapore in the late ‘70s, as it is a pining for simpler times and simpler truths.
