Johannsson’s last and first feature is a warning to humanity, a haunting sci-fi experimental mood piece shot in 16mm, narrated by Tilda Swinton and accompanied by his unique musical sound.
A conventional documentary about an unconventional instrument—the ancient shakuhachi—and the people who seek spiritual clarity through playing it.
This 5-hour long observational documentary shot in a psychiatric ward in Northeast China humanises patients diagnosed with mental illnesses and gives them tremendous empathy and dignity.
One of Makhmalbaf’s finest moments as a filmmaker, this meta-filmic exercise in reconciling with his own personal history is both poetic and introspective, and features one of cinema’s most revelatory ending shots.
A modest if tender documentary about an Alzheimer’s-stricken father (a retired Peking opera director) and his son (a multimedia artist) who try to heal through art and the creative process as they witness the ravages of time on their mortal connection.
Shot with a static camera in a perpetual medium close-up of the lead character, this disquieting Chilean take on the perils of being a social media celebrity rings hollow, ironically in a phenomenologically truthful way.
A dead body is found in the Mongolian steppes in this sublimely-shot if at times bizarre arthouse tale about carnal desires and the cycle of life.
The mid-‘90s assassination of then Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is radically told from the point-of-view of the assassin in this urgent and incisive sociopolitical-thriller about the dangers of holding extremist worldviews.
It is as if Charlie Kaufman had reimagined ‘The Shining’ in a whole new dimension—this indescribably cerebral and atmospheric film, an adaptation of the 2016 novel of the same name, enthrals as much as it frustrates.
An urgent and frightening documentary for our troubled times as it tackles the problem of fake news and disinformation through the prism of politics, social media and journalism in The Philippines.
Eternality Tan 