A small-town doctor embarks on a journey to find his nephew in Bi Ganโs formidable meditation on time and memory, where the director functions as a medium in which his alchemistic ways reveal moments of pure symbolic and poetic wonder.ย
The unsaid and the silences ring deafeningly in this Brazilian drama set in an island community, where generations of women have endured sexual abuse and exploitation, but one maturing teenager becomes cognizant of her fate.
Three men learn the bloodiest lesson ever from a rightfully vengeful woman in Fargeatโs stylish and gleefully exploitative first feature, a lean and mean modern throwback to the New French Extremity movement.
Two female teens hope to seek better opportunities in the body-violating world of modelling in this raw if measured Locarno Golden Leopard winner with strong echoes of Ulrich Seidl and Andrea Arnold.
A boy, forced to stay with his inmate mother in prison, finds a place of imaginative solace in a young political prisoner, as this Turkish classic subverts the โprison movieโ by focusing on the communal spirit of women who find a โhomeโ within the four walls.
Ciminoโs much-derided, massive financial failure of a film at the time can be appreciated today as a monumental piece of workโan ambitious, indulgent and unorthodox American Western, loosely based on the Johnson County War of 1892.
Powerful, insightful, frightening and surprisingly amusing, this documentary gives us unprecedented access into the inner workings of the Taliban as they returned to power in Afghanistan in 2021.
The lives of six Romanians intersect days before the momentous fall of Communist dictator Ceauศescu, as this ambitious debut feature with a terrific climax shows us what itโs like to live in a totalitarian country, oblivious to the winds of change just around the corner.
More political than it appears to be, Soraโs first narrative feature explores the punitive impact of heightened school surveillance as several students rebel against oppression in an increasingly destabilised Japanese society.
A soft-hearted, if sometimes amusing, elegy about love in all forms, be it unrequited, unconditional or burgeoning, as several students navigate a school โTalentimeโ show and family problems in Yasmin Ahmadโs sincerely-made final feature.
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