Coward
Lukas Dhont’s stirring latest film – which won its leads a pair of Best Actor prizes at Cannes – depicts a clandestine romance between two young men that blooms in the trenches of WWI.
Jauja
A revisionist western interrogating colonisation, Alonso’s beguiling historical feature reinvents itself with a mystifying final act.
Landmarks
Thirteen years in the making, Lucrecia Martel’s potent true-crime documentary connects the murder of an Indigenous leader to a national history of violence.
Liverpool
A sailor travels through a harsh but beautiful landscape in search of his old hometown and what remains of his family.
Memory
Visually imaginative and richly symbolic, this filmic collage recalls the writer/director’s own childhood in Chechnya, where she witnessed the atrocities of war firsthand.
A Shot at Art
Rogue retired female art festival volunteers take aim at a provocative phallic artwork – and the patriarchy it pretends to critique.
Variations on a Theme
Rotterdam’s Tiger Award winner riffs on the many lives of villagers in a lyrical docufiction fable of a forgotten South African mountain community.
Whispers in May
The winner of the main prize at CPH:DOX, this impressionistic hybrid documentary follows a teenage girl on a quest to find a ceremonial skirt.
Coward
Jauja
Landmarks — Nuestra Tierra
Liverpool
Memory
A Shot at Art
Variations on a Theme — Variasies op 'n Tema