Having finally completed my MIFF 2024 film reviews, here, here and here; and thought about their impact I’m finally able to set down my favourites. They’re listed below – bolded and italicised just to distinguish the titles from each other. There were so many it’s been quite hard to whittle them down from the forty films I saw. Films which took me to Countries – Germany, Norway, India, China, Turkey, America, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Argentina, Amsterdam, the Orkney Islands, Denmark, and imaginary worlds.
Here, in order although I really loved all of them, are my strongly recommended contemporary feature films, of a total of twenty three seen:
Dying; Matthias Glasner
Armand; Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel
All We Imagine As Light; Payal Kapadia
Crossing; Levan Akin
Brief History of a Family; Jianji Lin
Lee; Ellen Kuras
Bob Trevino Likes It; Tracie Laymon
House Of All Seasons; Oh Jung-min
Audrey; Natalie Bailey
Head South; Jonathan Ogilvie
And these are my recommended documentaries, of which I saw ten:
Menu-Plaisirs Les TroisGrois; Frederick Wiseman
Made In England: The Films of Powell And Pressburger; David Hinton
Out of four animations I strongly recommend:
Memoir Of A Snail; Adam Elliot
I‘d recommend all three Restorations / Retrospectives that I saw:
Romulus My Father; Richard Roxborough
The Cars That Ate Paris; Peter Weir
The Back Room; Powell & Pressburger
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