Custom Order: a thin plot and equally thin characters in a story on commodifying identity
Will Lowell, “Custom Order” (2017) Looks like I hit a dud sci-fi short for once
Australian and New Zealand Films
Colony: a stereotyped sci-fi horror treatment of colonisation and possession
Catherine Bonny, “Colony” (2018) Partly informed by the history of early European settlement in Australia,
They Watch: a dystopian sci-fi film of the oppressed being used to oppress others
Andre LeBlanc, “They Watch” (2016) In the near future, a mother and her teenage son
French and French-language Films
Dejeuner sur l’herbe: a character study that skewers intellectual and religious arrogance
Jules Bourges, Jocelyn Charles, Nathan Harbonn Viaud, Pierre Rougemont,”Déjeuner sur l’herbe” (2019) A droll character
O Lucky Man! – a blackly comic odyssey criticising capitalist ideology and values
Lindsay Anderson, “O Lucky Man!” (1973) A satirical allegory that exposes life in Western capitalist
Orbit: adaptation of famous Edgar Allan Poe story enquires into the fragility of identity
Nicholas Camp, Don Thiel III, “Orbit” (2019) A clever re-telling of the classic Edgar Allan
Clean Cut: short whimsical sci-fi black comedy of an unlikely serial killer in the making
Andrew Hunt, “Clean Cut” (2015) From DUST, an online channel specialising in screening science fiction
French and French-language Films
Protocole Sandwich: a likeable and subversive commentary on conformism, hysteria and denial in Western society
Valerie Bousquie, Josephine Meis, Antoine Vignon, Benjamin Warnitz, “Protocole Sandwich” (2019) This very likeable and
Savage Messiah: fictional biopic critical of British class system and hypocrisies
Ken Russell, “Savage Messiah” (1972) Idiosyncratic British director Ken Russell’s “Savage Messiah” is a fictional
French and French-language Films
Dogs: a metaphor for the psychological and other effects of global war and violence
Mohammad Babakoohi, Jakob Bednarz, Benjamin Berrebi, Diego Cristofano, Théo Noble, Karlo Pavicic-Ravlic, Marthinus van Rooyen,