Out on a limb: Kleber Mendonça Filho has ingeniously programmed a mixture of horror, science fiction, paranoid thriller, crime procedural, and personal documentary that inform his latest, The Secret Agent
Suffering embraces: Angelo Madsen’s feature documentary A Body to Live In and Tiona Nekkia McClodden’s video installations explore sadomasochism through a soft and attentive lens
Refusing the waves: Milagros Mumenthaler’s The Currents and Mascha Schilinski’s Sound of Falling revive the image of the self-drowned woman with a bracing literalism
Unchained: Ramesh Sippy’s swashbuckling 1975 epic mashes together tropes from westerns, dacoit films, silent comedies, and musicals to create an entirely unique cult classic
Sign up for the Film Comment Letter
Thoughtful, original film criticism delivered straight to your inbox each week.
