A thoughtful, shrewd examination of the impact of rapidly developing technologies.
Best friends Yuta and Kou are on the brink of graduating from high school in a near-future Tokyo where the threat of a catastrophic earthquake casts a shadow over daily life.
Carreira shows how quiet desperation can be eroding
Trapped between the confines of her workplace and the solitude of her flat-share, a Portuguese warehouse picker in Scotland seeks to resist the loneliness, alienation and ensuing small talk which begin to threaten her sense of self.
(Country: UK, Portugal; Year: 2024; Director: Laura Carreira; Writer: Laura Carreira; Stars: Joana Santos, Inês Vaz, Neil Leiper, Ola Forman, Deborah Arnott, Katharine K.K. Kennedy, Piotr Sikora, Robert Rutonic, Ross Ian-Martin, Daniel McGuire, Helen Robinson)
Writer/director Sandhya Suri - who has a documentary background - is keen to show that everyone plays their part in the prejudices and corruption of the legal system.
Newly widowed Santosh inherits her husband’s job as a police constable in the rural badlands of Northern India. When a low caste girl is found raped and murdered, she is pulled into the investigation under the wing of charismatic feminist inspector Sharma.
Sisters July and September are thick as thieves, though very different. Their dynamic is a concern to their single mum, Sheela. Tension among the three women builds when they take refuge in an old holiday home in Ireland.
Starting as a refined drama about a broken Tunisian family, the narrative becomes a complex meditation on attachment and motherhood, all encompassed by a remarkable female lead.
Aïcha longs for the return of her oldest sons, Mehdi and Amine, who abandoned the household in search of war. Upon Mehdi's return, a looming darkness surfaces.
