This breakout hit from Sundance about growing up as an Asian-American in the late 2000s is energetic and emotionally resonant, overcoming its sense of familiarity through the sincerity of its filmmaking.
As vital a documentary as any in the last ten years, Derki courageously enters the lion’s den that is terrorist-infested Syria by posing as a war photographer, giving us an unprecedented view of what it is like to be in the company of religious extremists young and old.
Dupieux’s outstanding single-location film works as a sardonic meta-filmic commentary on art and performance as an audience member with a gun takes a theatre show hostage for producing ‘boring work’.
Grand yet intimate, this Cannes Un Certain Regard award winner, about a man who strikes up a friendship with a black stray dog in a small town, mostly avoids overt sentimentalism in its portrayal of changing times in rural China.
Modest but effective, and unexpectedly moving, this documentary on Taylor Swift gives us the broad strokes of a human being who is always trying to prove herself through her music artistry and compassion for others.
Possibly one of the finest ‘body horror’ films of the post-2000s era, Fargeat’s sophomore film takes on sexism and ageism in the entertainment industry with a middle finger so pointed that the violence and gore become saliently and nihilistically rewarding.
The desire to be eternally beautiful—and eternally relevant—in the modelling world is the subject of Ninagawa’s exuberant and darkly ironic sophomore feature.
Moving in unexpected ways, this meta-filmic documentary about a director who conducted a series of film classes for a group of German girls in 1968, brings everyone back for a reunion as they revisit those wonderful days when filmmaking seemed to have limitless pedagogical possibilities.
The exploitation of religion in a poor village is the subject of Bernal’s best-known, and at times, shocking work, as word spreads about a woman who claims to have visions of the Virgin Mary.
One of 2024’s absolute gems, this rapturous, stunningly-edited Sundance award-winning documentary sets the GOATs of American jazz against the tumultuous political history of Congo’s struggle for independence during the decolonisation phase of the Cold War.
Eternality Tan 