A Lithuanian woman decides to divorce her husband the day before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, in this realistic Sundance Directing Award winner that finds striking resonance in the collision between the personal and political, focusing on one (privileged) family in crisis.
Dust, haunted technology, and political trauma mark this uncanny deadpan Thai comedy where the corporeal and supernatural coexist with grounded preposterousness, as a dead wife returns as a possessed vacuum cleaner to protect her misunderstood husband.
A Sundance award-winning documentary that captures the power of civil resistance with gripping immediacy, as it chronicles the Kenmure Street protests in Glasgow, after two Sikh men were taken from their home into a police van that was prevented by the community from departing.
A lonely OB-GYN in a rural Georgian hospital faces allegations of malpractice in Kulumbegashvili’s brutally slow-paced, if quietly devastating, sophomore feature—a Haneke-esque moral inquiry marked by hypnotic long takes and sublime use of film language.
A socially awkward boy at a summer water polo camp faces stigmatisation and arbitrary inclusion/exclusion by his peers in this formally assured feature debut, marked by a haunting sound design and body horror that depict bullying as not merely social or pathological but psychosomatic.
Wiseman’s observational mastery in this patient, humane, and richly textured work reveals a vision of community sustained through dialogue, care, and conflict, offering a quietly stirring reflection on what it means to nurture shared public spaces.
Four gangsta-wannabe schoolgirls navigate friendship, school rules and academic expectations in Tan Siyou’s fantastic debut feature, an emotionally resonating work about the codification of teenage identity and destiny in conformist Singapore.
Realism without filters, Chernov’s follow-up to the Oscar-winning ’20 Days in Mariupol’ is a devastating war vérité that strips conflict of rhetoric, leaving only attrition, absurdity, and the unbearable weight of patriotic labour carried by ordinary Ukrainian men.
Unadorned in form yet uncompromising in purpose, Jacir’s invigorating new work about the late ‘30s Arab revolt in Palestine shows that power lies in the clarity with which one reframes both past injustice and present responsibility.
A urologist and her gay male nurse are non-committal in their pursuit of relationships with others, but their array of experiences challenges their worldviews on love, sex and the ‘morality’ of values, in this outstanding middle entry of Haugerud’s loose thematic ‘Oslo’ trilogy.
Eternality Tan 