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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A zany if somewhat overzealous romp as this darkly entertaining meta-film about a struggling director (played by a fantastic Leslie Cheung) forced to make a Cat III erotic movie, features Shu Qi in a breakout role.
Students are forced to kill each other by law in this Asian Extreme cult classic par excellence, still as provocative more than 20 years on in its themes about youth, rebellion and authoritarianism.
A young woman’s unwavering stand against the shameful Iranian legal system is captured with both intimacy and exasperation in this insightful documentary about the case of Reyhaneh Jabbari, who was hanged for acting in self-defence against a rapist in 2014.
Eternality Tan 