Three men learn the bloodiest lesson ever from a rightfully vengeful woman in Fargeat’s 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 ‘prison movie’ by focusing on the communal spirit of women who find a ‘home’ within the four walls.
Cimino’s much-derided, massive financial failure of a film at the time can be appreciated today as a monumental piece of work—an 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 Ceaușescu, as this ambitious debut feature with a terrific climax shows us what it’s like to live in a totalitarian country, oblivious to the winds of change just around the corner.
More political than it appears to be, Sora’s 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 ‘Talentime’ show and family problems in Yasmin Ahmad’s sincerely-made final feature.
Things go dreadfully south during a wild night in a Louisiana juke joint in Coogler’s most original work yet, marked by patient setups, foreshadowing, and playful blending of genres in this fervent, intoxicating music-horror.
An exquisite and meditative biopic about a Japanese tea master who became influential with the shoguns during the 16th century as Teshigahara conflates the personal with the political in a beguiling way.
Eternality Tan 