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.
Sofia Coppola returns to contemporary urban filmmaking in this charming indie about marriages and affairs as a young mother and her womanising father try to make sense of the trajectory of their current lives.
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.
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.
Nolan’s work here is a sci-fi sledgehammer—a mind-numbing head-scratcher on the first viewing, but the confoundment subsides when you do a ‘temporal pincer movement’ on yourself with each subsequent viewing, which is really how you should experience his latest ambitious if at times overbearing cinematic Sudoku puzzle.
This extraordinary Portuguese docu-fiction is best described as Malick meets Parajanov—a transcendental portrait of what it means to navigate the personal, the familial and the ancestral as a lineage of lived experiences.
This strong debut feature on the African immigrant experience in the US is told via an unconventional triptych structure that explores with uncommon nuance the subjectivity of personal truths and experiences.
An abortion drama told introspectively from the perspective of two teenage girls who must chart their own path in this tender third feature by rising filmmaker Eliza Hittman.
Told in four chapters, of which the first is a masterpiece, Rasoulof’s Golden Berlin Bear winner, unfortunately, falters in focus as it ambitiously tackles the taboo subject of capital punishment in Iran.
Eternality Tan 