A confident debut feature as this poignant drama about two Korean childhood sweethearts who meet again as adults in New York will likely work the tearducts.
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Past Lives (2023)
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Daughters of the Dust (1991)
It’s hard to find a debut feature this dreamy and evocative, as Dash lends historical voice to her people—the generations of Gullahs who lived on the South Carolina Sea Islands as they endured slavery and faced a modernising 20th century.
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20,000 Species of Bees (2023)
A sensitively-drawn debut feature about a trans-child who must navigate burgeoning notions of gender identity amid confusing signals sent by her family, shot in a naturalistic style befitting the very nature of self-discovery.
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Chicken for Linda! (2023)
A mother hopes to make amends with her daughter by cooking a special chicken dish in this striking French animation full of colours and vitality, set against the backdrop of a strike that has caused their town to come to a standstill.
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Eight Mountains, The (2022)
The incredible mountainous vistas envelope this deeply resonating tale of two boys-turned-men with baggage from the past and uncertain futures as they navigate family, friendship and the natural landscape that continually gives them the inspiration to live.
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Quiet Girl, The (2022)
Seemingly thin on story at first but ultimately rewarding like a cleansing wave of life’s little moments of affection and humanity, this Irish Oscar-nominated directorial debut centres on a young girl’s tenderly introspective view of an adult world of joy, sorrow and the unsaid.
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Tiger Stripes (2023)
Puberty and school bullying conflate in this somewhat peculiar feature debut with elements of horror as a schoolgirl discovers her body changing in distressing ways.
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De Humani Corporis Fabrica (2022)
This startlingly eye-opening documentary brings us deep into the human body, finding abstract beauty in its grotesque sights of tissue and organs, yet at the same time, it is also about the sounds of life and death—within and outside of bodies as surgeons chatter, equipment beep and hospitals bustle.
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Beyond Utopia (2023)
An extraordinary Oscar-worthy documentary about North Koreans who have defected, with startlingly real footage of escape and told in such a highly-suspenseful and intense manner that may even put the finest thrillers to shame.
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Driver, The (1978)
Stripped to its bare essentials, this Melville-esque car chase thriller sees Ryan O’Neal and Bruce Dern go head-to-head as a getaway driver and dirty detective respectively.
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Eternality Tan 