Borden’s radical ‘sci-fi documentary’, put together in a gritty, agitprop style, imagines an alternate universe USA, where black lesbian ‘terrorists’ fight for justice for women and the oppressed.
Bresson’s acrid final feature may be seen as a ‘counter-feit/fict-ion’, exploring the transactionality of exploitation through an anti-narrative, as a fake bill sparks an irreversible chain of events.
An ambitious but overdrawn affair, Yang’s debut feature attempts to make meaningful non-linear connections across decades of a person’s life, as a woman reconnects with a friend from the past.
Tsui’s Hong Kong action-fantasy cult classic is a reminder that the ‘visibility’ of VFX can be a virtue, with its retrogradely charming effects distracting from its nonsensical story of super-warriors fighting against an evil force.
Morita’s creatively-shot and accomplished breakthrough film sees a tutor-outsider embrace and disrupt the status quo of a middle-class family with an underachieving child, with thought-provoking results.
One of the holy grails of world cinema, there is an elusive, mythic halo cast over Erice’s ‘incomplete’ film, a memory piece about a daughter’s melancholy reflection of her secretive father during her post-Spanish Civil War days of childhood.
This mystery-drama set in a remote village alternates between blissfulness and the ominous, exploring the transgression of hidden desires through the lens of sexuality.
Akerman’s rarely-seen made-for-TV documentary about Pina Bausch is intimate, minimalist and soul-stirring as the famous choreographer goes on a European tour with her company of dancers.
A sci-fi body horror movie that stands out in Cronenberg’s ‘80s oeuvre for its special effects and just-as-relevant-today commentary on our obsession with the screen.
Kaurismaki’s confident first solo feature already contains the hallmarks of his sober, deadpan style, in the guise of a loose adaptation of Dostoevsky’s famous text.
Eternality Tan 