The Best of Arthouse
Top 5 recommended international art films
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5. The Wonder
Out now
The Wonder is by a Chilean director Sebastián Lelio who explores 19th-century Ireland for a drama about domestic relationships and the tensions between religion and science.
3. Triangle of Sadness
Models Carl and Yaya are navigating the world of fashion exploring the boundaries of their relationship. The couple are invited for a luxury cruise with a rogues’ gallery of super-rich.
6. Nanny
Aisha is a Senegalese nanny, working in New York for a wealthy white family. She looks after Rose, but Aisha’s son remains at home in Senegal, she works to raise money for him to join her. As Aisha’s relationship with her employers gets difficult so does her connection to her home. She is haunted by figures from West African folklore who warn her.
1. Roald Dahl’s Matilda Musical
An adaptation of the Tony and Olivier award-winning musical. Matilda tells the story of an extraordinary girl who, armed with a sharp mind and a vivid imagination, dares to take a stand to change her story with miraculous results.
4. White Noise
Coming soon
How best to describe the indescribable White Noise? It’s a film about nihilism the reduction of life, death the
nuclear family nuclear reactions, newly discovered medicines and the sacred space of the supermarket.
Short films from around the world
THE LAST TIME I SAW SNOW
A mixed-reality installation, with digital projections in augmented reality (AR), is a story about human destruction and worldwide climate change.
Filmmakers use AR, projection mapping SFX. The Last Time I Saw Snow explores the experience of an audience wandering through a depopulated, deteriorated future. The London-based artists Isobel Mascarenhas-Whitman and Alex Tennyson have created a dystopian future, deteriorated climate conditions have increased sea levels, driving humanity to the fringes of an ecosystem they had previously sought to control. This film is about our perception of the world and invites us to question our thoughts and beliefs about our immediate future.
Lead Artists
Isobel MascarenhasWhitman
Alex Tennyson
Lead Actor
Anna-Maria Nabirye
Casting
Sophie North
Sound Design
Olivia Morgan
UK, 2022
Duration
15min
Production Company
Typeone
Language
English
THE RITUAL TO BEAUTY
The meaning of beauty is experienced through three generations of Dominican women. We learn about their beauty ritual and a pain burieddeep in the denial of their Blackness.
Director Maria Marrone, Shenny de Los Angeles
USA 2020. 14min
Languages English, Spanish
With English subtitles
FLOWERS
An Afro-futurist tale of love reclaimed through poetic storytelling to imagine how a Black fairytale would look.
Director-Screenwriter Dumas Haddad
Producer George Telfer
UK 2022. 8min
Language English
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