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,
British Films | North American Films
Judy: a character study of a Hollywood legend destroyed by an exploitative industry manipulating people’s dreams and hopes
Rupert Goold, “Judy” (2019) Adapted from Peter Quilter’s musical stage drama “End of the Rainbow”,
French and French-language Films
Out of Range: a study of character transformation through personal crisis and breakdown
Cécile Guillard, Lana Choukroune, Yijia Cao, “Out of Range” (2019) In the Gobelins animated universe,
The Lost Breakfast: amusing animation on how chaos invades and disrupts order and control through daily rituals
Q-rais, “The Lost Breakfast” (2015) Where some cartoonists treat the weekday early morning ritual of
Latin American Films (Spanish language)
Birds of Passage: a generic fable of easy wealth and crime leading to doom given fresh life by an indigenous Colombian setting
Cristina Gallego, Ciro Guerra, “Birds of Passage / Pájaros de Verano” (2018) In many ways,