The subtle sense of humour Irons portrays, as well as superb comic turns from Keith Allen and Simon McBurney as Kafka's impish assistants, strengthens the film's absurdist undertone in keeping with the traces often encountered in Kafka's novels.
An insurance clerk becomes determined to discover the truth behind a terror cell.
There is also no mistaking the challenge to us, the viewers, regarding our own awareness of where products come from and our, albeit unwitting, culpability in child exploitation.
Portrait of Kailash Satyarthi, who has made it his life's work to end child slavery and exploitation.
Low-stakes grifters, Old Dolio and her parents invite a chipper young woman into their insular clan, only to have their entire world turned upside down.
Production designer Eri Sakushima and costume designer Atsuko Shiraishi have done a magnificent job of bringing the manga's striking imagery to life.
At an elite school where everything is based around gambling, a dispute between factions creates an opportunity for an ambitious student to try and outsmart all the others.
Eklöf also doesn’t deal in absolutes, allowing us to see that Jan is both damaged and damaging, not just to himself but others - a hot mess in a cold climate.
A nurse who was abused by his father finds his trauma is increasingly damaging to himself and those around him.
Made on a very low budget, the film looks rough, but the performances are solid enough and the leads have real chemistry.
In Namibia, a country where sodomy is still a crime and gay relationships are stigmatized against, two lives intersect: George and Simeon. Two secrets. One unlikely meeting in a bar.
It holds nothing back – it’s funny, violent, suspenseful and tense while still discussing our current cultural moment, both locally and globally, and being very incisive and dangerous about it.
A pregnant woman gets a call from a god who orders her to commit a series of murders.
First-time feature director Juan Pablo Félix takes the same energetic, forthright approach to his filmmaking that his protagonist does to his beloved malambo dance.
A teenage malambo dancer finds his life complicated by the arrival of his long-incarcerated dad.
A gently paced but unsparing and unglamorous portrait of a gay relationship where love doesn't and perhaps never could conquer all.
An autobiographically inspired story of a passionate long-term relationship between two men driven by addiction and secrets but bound by love and hopefulness.
Susani Mahadura's documentary tells a very personal story whilst teasing out related themes.
Kelet is a young Somali trans woman who dreams of becoming a Vogue model. Leaving her family in Manchester to return to her childhood home in Finland, she draws on the support of her friends in the Vogue community to immerse herself in Helsinki's glamour.
Ambitious in its attempts to stitch Jack Kerouac’s biography through a patchwork exploration of both cultural and social modern America as related to his seminal book On The Road.
Jack Kerouac's On the Road finds new relevance as modern travellers including Josh Brolin, W. Kamau Bell and Natalie Merchant reveal how his quest for authentic experience resonates powerfully in our screen-saturated era.
Throughout you can see the ways in which the filmmakers are going the extra mile to empower their subjects.
Forced to leave Sudan for East Africa following the outbreak of war, five citizens of Khartoum - a civil servant, a tea lady, a resistance committee volunteer, and two young bottle collectors - reenact their stories of survival and freedom through dreams, revolution, and civil war.
Zein has a strong eye and ear for a poetic image and captures the day-to-day fabric of the women's lives well but the context of the situation remains frustratingly opaque.
A group of women footballers are prepared to defy a ban imposed by Sudan's military government in order to practice their sport.
This cinematic exploration, a manifestation of Christian bigotry, speculates with cinematic icons and religious imagery, laying bare the power-hungry clergy.
In 1858, a six-year-old Jewish boy is forcibly seized from his family by the Catholic church.
It is impossible to look at the faces of the witnesses speaking here and not see their pain, not know that what they are speaking is the truth.
A forensic reconstruction of the trial of 15 people which took place in January of 1946 in the Soviet Union, and was one of the first post-war trials convicting German Nazis and their collaborators.
By far the best thing about it is Wang Ji-hye as the wife, Mi-young.
A man wakes up from a drunken stupor to be told that his estranged wife has been murdered. He tries to dodge the cops, recover his memories and solve the crime while aware that he could actually have killed her.
There's a disassociation between the original's ennui and what might be the consequences of sleep deprivation. There's also a rebalancing of its violence, and it might be that which most discomfits.
After a fateful near miss, an assassin battles his employers, and himself, on an international manhunt he insists isn’t personal.
It is Scorsese at his, one hesitates to say peak, but absolute.
Members of the Osage tribe in the United States are murdered under mysterious circumstances in the 1920s, sparking a major FBI investigation involving J Edgar Hoover.
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