Your Name: teenage romance comedy drama comes with an unexpected twist sending it into disaster sci-fi fantasy
Makoto Shinkai, “Your Name” (2016) At first this teenage romance drama seems to be just
Foxtrot: a meditation on loss, grief and the circularity of indifference, suffering and brutality
Samuel Maoz, “Foxtrot” (2017) Divided into three parts, with the first and third parts dominated
NYC to Donetsk & back: an American visitor discovers a new nation in the making in eastern Ukraine
Alexander Korobko, “NYC to Donetsk & back” (Russian Hour, 2018) Made in 2017 or 2018,
Rams: a minimal but insubstantial film on the fragility of family and community ties and traditions against the outside world
Grimur Hakonarson, “Rams / Hrutar” (2015 Forty years ago, a family rift led to two
Chinese and Chinese-language Films
The Goddess: a social realist film with natural and minimal acting, and a young rising star
Wu Yonggang, “The Goddess / Shen nu” (1935) A year after this film was made,
A superficial survey of how far a society has recovered a decade after years of war and destruction in “Chechnya: Republic of Contrasts”
“Chechnya: Republic of Contrasts” (RT Channel, 2013) Made in 2013, this RT documentary is probably
Australian and New Zealand Films | Russian and Soviet Films
Exposing and satirising British news media propaganda idiocy in “The Hooligans: Joining the Kremlin’s Football Army”
Pavel Serezhkin, “The Hooligans: Joining the Kremlin’s Football Army” (2018) Here’s a very funny mockumentary
Batman vs. Two-Face: two icons of 1960s television series facing off in a film reconciling the Bright Knight and Dark Knight sides of Batman
Rick Morales, “Batman vs. Two-Face” (2017) Adam West’s final outing as Batman before his death
Carrying a heavy legacy of numerous interpretations of Batman in “Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders”
Rick Morales, “Batman: Return of the Caped Crusaders” (2016) The series of Batman films by
Australian and New Zealand Films
Blue: the impact of human activities and pollution on marine environments and ecosystems told through individual stories
Karina Holden, “Blue” (2017) Instead of bashing its audiences over the head with facts ‘n’