animation Josep 13th April 202113th April 2021 "Which ones were the animals? You have to wonder." ★★★★★ Aurélien Froment's French-Spanish-Belgian animated drama Josep (2020) recounts a dying gendarme's (French for 'police officer') friendship with Josep Bartolí, a…
drama Sand Storm 8th April 20218th April 2021 "Do you ever open your eyes to what's around you?" ★★★ Written and directed by Elite Zexter, the Israeli drama Sand Storm (2016) focuses on the tension between the members…
horror The Witch 1st April 20211st April 2021 "I hold evil in my heart. My sins are not pardoned." ★★★★★ Robert Eggers took the horror world by storm in 2015 with his debut film The Witch (or The VVitch…
fantasy Sorry to Bother You 26th March 202126th March 2021 "If you get shown a problem, but have no idea how to control it, then you just decide to get used to the problem" ★★★★ Boots Riley's directorial debut Sorry…
comedy Scandal in Sorrento 23rd March 2021 "The heart doesn't get old" ★★★★ Dino Risi's 1955 comedy film Scandal in Sorrento (Italian: Pane, amore e ..., which literally translates to "Bread, love and ...") is set in…
documentary Virunga 19th March 202119th March 2021 "You must justify why you are on this Earth" Orlando von Einsiedel's 2014 documentary combines investigative journalism with a report on Virunga National Park's endangered wildlife. It shifts between shots…
action Beasts of No Nation 16th March 202117th March 2021 "The only way not to be fighting anymore is to be dying" ★★★★★ The American-Ghanaian war drama film Beasts of No Nation (2015) was a project Cary Joji Fukunaga, who…
comedy The Young Offenders 9th March 202114th March 2021 "There are two things you need for an adventure; a treasure map and someone dumb enough to go with you." ★★★★ Written, directed and co-produced by Peter Foott, the Irish…
romance Dear Ex 5th March 202113th March 2021 "Between a mistress and a male lover, who do you think would win?" ★★★★★ In their 2018 Taiwanese romance/comedy-drama film Dear Ex (Chinese: 誰先愛上他的, which literally translates to "Who Started…
drama An Elephant Sitting Still 2nd March 202114th March 2021 "You can go wherever you want. However, you'll find nothing different." ★★★★★ Despite its extremely positive reviews from critics and the audience alike, Hu Bo's 2018 drama film An Elephant…
thriller The Stanford Prison Experiment 26th February 202113th March 2021 "You have no right to mess with my head" ★★★★★ Kyle Patrick Alvarez's American thriller film The Stanford Prison Experiment (2015) unearths the 1971 social psychology experiment led by Philip…
animation When Marnie Was There 23rd February 202127th March 2021 "You're my precious secret" ★★★★ Studio Ghibli's 2014 anime drama When Marnie Was There (Japanese: 思い出のマーニー, Marnie of [my] Memories) was the production company's last project before its six-year hiatus,…
thriller Dukhtar 19th February 202113th March 2021 "This state of war is like a sickness. It consumed me." ★★★★ Written and directed by Afia Nathaniel, the Pakistani thriller-drama film Dukhtar (Translation from Urdu: Daughter, 2014) struggled to…
comedy Look Who’s Back 16th February 202113th March 2021 "Do I look like a criminal?" ★★★★ Inspired by the success of Timur Vermes’ 2012 novel, David Wnendt directed the 2015 satirical comedy film Look Who's Back (German: Er ist wieder da).…
sci-fi Space Sweepers 12th February 202113th March 2021 "This isn't dirty. Human beings are dirty." ★★★ Jo Sung-hee's South Korean space opera Space Sweepers (Korean: 승리호, 2021) is regarded as the country's first space blockbuster. It should be…
fantasy Alice 9th February 202113th March 2021 "Close your eyes, otherwise you won't see anything" ★★★★★ Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel Alice's Adventures in Wonderland has been an endless source of inspiration, but none of its adaptations can match the…
romance Malcolm & Marie 6th February 202113th March 2021 "Don't be sensitive, this isn't a fight" ★★★★ Sam Levinson, known as the creator of Euphoria (2019 -), took on the challenge of directing the American romantic drama Malcolm &…
comedy Stuck Apart 3rd February 202113th March 2021 "You can be alone, but not too much" ★★★★ Stuck Apart (Turkish: Azizler, 2021), directed by Durul and Yağmur Taylan, is a film that pays little mind to traditional genre categorization.…
action U-571 1st February 202113th March 2021 "Either you succeed in sinking that ship, or you see to it that none of us survive to be captured" ★★★★ Jonathan Mostow's film U-571 (2000) exists in the liminal…
thriller Escape from Pretoria 29th January 202113th March 2021 "Freedom is a very simple idea, which is perhaps why it can be so easily lost" ★★★★★ Francis Annan's Australian thriller Escape from Pretoria (2020) is based on the real-life…
drama Corpus Christi 27th January 202113th March 2021 "You know what we're good at? Giving up on people" ★★★★ Jan Komasa's Corpus Christi (Polish: Boże Ciało) managed to outgrow the Polish borders in 2019, receiving many prestigious awards worldwide,…
Series Lupin 25th January 202113th March 2021 You didn’t look at me. You saw me, but you didn’t really look. ★★★★★ The French mystery thriller series Lupin (2021- ), created by George Kay and François Uzan, was…
action The Wave 22nd January 202113th March 2021 "This whole country is one big rock" ★★★★ Roar Uthaug's disaster film The Wave (Norwegian: Bølgen, 2015) depicts an event that is expected to happen in Møre og Romsdal, a…
horror The Ritual 20th January 202113th March 2021 "We're not the only animals in the woods" ★★★ At first glance, and much to the elation of all horror fans, David Bruckner’s British debut feature film The Ritual (2017)…
animation Arjun: The Warrior Prince 18th January 202113th March 2021 "You seek penance with a bow and arrow?" ★★★★ Arnab Chaudhuri's Indian animated action film Arjun: The Warrior Prince (2012), co-produced by UTV Moon Pictures and Walt Disney Pictures India,…
adventure Embrace of the Serpent 15th January 202113th March 2021 "In this journey he must find out, in solitude and silence, who he truly is" ★★★★★ In his 2015 Colombian adventure drama Embrace of the Serpent (Spanish: El Albrazo de…
romance Elisa & Marcela 13th January 20214th April 2021 "Reading your words is the closest thing to touching you" ★★★ In her biographical romantic drama Elisa & Marcela (2019), Catalan director Isabel Coixet uses an artistically promising black and…
drama I Am Kalam 11th January 202113th March 2021 "Do you believe that destiny makes a man, or his actions?" ★★★★ Nila Madhab Panda's Indian drama I Am Kalam (2010) was produced by the charity Smile Foundation, an NGO…
sci-fi Dark City 8th January 202113th March 2021 "Nothing like a little healthy paranoia" ★★★★★ Some films are doomed to obscurity, just like the citizens in Alex Proyas’ Dark City (1998). Subject to the circumstantial time and space…
comedy Rose Island 6th January 202113th March 2021 "The important thing is to change the world" ★★★★ Sydney Sibilia's 2020 comedy-drama Rose Island (Italian: L'incredibile storia dell'Isola delle Rose) tells the incredible true story of the Republic of Rose…
