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…
Concession Stand A Queer Fetish 5th April 20218th April 2021 A cursory glance at the arbitrary selection of LGBTQ movie posters displayed below leads us to a curious observation. Regardless of the intensity with which any of these films embrace…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
romance Your Name Engraved Herein 28th December 202013th March 2021 "Maybe more people would understand me in hell" ★★★★★ Kuang-Hui Liu's 2020 Taiwanese romantic drama film Your Name Engraved Herein was released on Netflix only a few days before Christmas,…
animation The Breadwinner 23rd December 202013th March 2021 "Raise your words, not your voice" ★★★★★ Nora Twomey's 2017 film The Breadwinner is an animation based on Deborah Ellis' 2000 novel of the same name. Taking on a war-ravaged…
drama In The Name Of 16th December 202013th March 2021 "Every day we die and are reborn again" ★★★★★ Małgorzata Szumowska's 2013 Polish drama film In The Name Of (Polish: W Imię) portrays the human soul with shocking tenderness. Priest…
romance Rafiki 11th December 202013th March 2021 "I wish this was real" ★★★★ Wanuri Kahiu's 2018 romance film Rafiki (Swahili for 'friend') was banned in its native Kenya. As the director stated in an interview with TIFF,…
drama Atlantics 7th December 202013th March 2021 "Some memories are omens" ★★★★★ In an interview with Netflix, director Mati Diop stated that she wanted to dedicate her supernatural romantic drama film Atlantics (French: Atlantique, 2019) to the…
comedy The Favourite 4th December 202013th March 2021 "We'll make a killer of you yet" ★★★★ Yorgos Lanthimos' dark comedy film The Favourite (2018) hones in on one of history's most intricate power plays. It involved Anne, Queen…
drama The Salvation 30th November 202013th March 2021 "Never start a fight you can't win" ★★★★ There are very few twists one can subject a western film to these days. Doing so would require the contortion of an…
comedy Brahman Naman 27th November 202013th March 2021 "What is the colour of colour TV?" ★★★★ Quashiq Mukherjee's English-language Indian sex comedy film Brahman Naman (2016) is set in 1980's Bangalore, and illuminates the psyches of four teenage…
