The Weird and The Wonderful
This collection celebrates films which swing for the fences, taking bold, idiosyncratic approaches to storytelling. These films are linked by the filmmaker's willingness to challenge audience expectations and play with genre conventions, resulting in daring, fantastical and, occasionally, downright odd, movies that are equally compelling and surprising.
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Six Reasons Why
In a future where society has come full circle and man lives by the code of the guns at his side, a fugitive, a vengeful son, a killer, and a servant stand in a four-way face-off from which only one man can walk away. To the east lies seven boomtowns connected by railroad, and to the west is a Ut...
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Brief Story From The Green Planet
Berlin International Film Festival
ACID program, Cannes Film Festival
Thessaloniki International Film FestivalArgentinian director Santiago Loza's highly imaginative, and consistently surprising, Brief Story From The Green Planet premiered at the Berlin Film Festival in 2019, going on to win th...
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Maggie
"Exuberantly nonsensical debut from South Korea’s Yi Okseop"
Busan International Film Festival
International Film Festival Rotterdam
Fantasia International Film FestivalStylish and surreal, Yi Okseop's bold debut feature is part relationship drama, part sci-fi, part comedic satire, and a lot m...
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Origami
Fantasia International Film Festival
Quebec City Film Festival
Cinefest Sudbury International Film FestivalThis sci-fi thriller focusses on David (François Arnaud), a man on a unique trip that doesn't take him from one place to another but from one moment in time to another. Seeking to better u...
