A profound and emotionally resonant film telling the intersecting stories of four characters in the north-east of China, An Elephant Sitting Still is both the debut and, tragically, the final feature film by filmmaker and novelist Hu Bo, who tragically passed away at the age of twenty-nine during postproduction on the film.
A highly episodic experiment set in Russian-occupied eastern Ukraine, Donbass is the latest narrative feature from the controversial Sergei Loznitsa, the Ukraine’s preeminent contemporary filmmaker.
Made in the mode of his ephocal series Histoire(s) du cinéma, combining fervidly intercut archival footage and a bracing deluge of oracular commentary, The Image Book finds Jean-Luc Godard making peerless art at the apex of a peerless career.
Winner of the FIPRESCI prize at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival, Burning is a loose adaption of the 1983 Haruki Murakami story “Barn Burning.” Informed by what director Lee Chang-dong has described as his growing concern with “the rage of young people,” the film presents a simmering love triangle and pyromaniacal acting out within the context of a corroding social fabric.
Mohammad Rasoulof’s Cannes-winning A Man of Integrity is a powerful film that smartly shows how corruption can take hold in society aided by men who lurk in the shadows and pull the strings.
