Monos

Billi (Awkwafina) is called back from New York to her native China because her beloved grandmother is facing her last days. Yet, in accordance with tradition, this news is kept from the matriarch herself. Keeping up the pretence of a family wedding while reconnecting and grieving, we follow Billi on a funny, deeply moving exploration […]

Winner of Sundance 2019’s Grand Jury Prize, The Souvenir is the compelling, semi-autobiographical drama from award-winning director/writer Joanna Hogg (Unrelated, Archipelago, Exhibition). A young, quietly ambitious film student (Honor Swinton Byrne) embarks on her first serious love affair with a charismatic and mysterious man (Tom Burke).  She tries to disentangle fact from fiction as […]

Highly controversial in its native France, François Ozon’s (Frantz, Swimming Pool) brilliant new film follows the survivors of an ongoing child abuse scandal in the Catholic church as they seek justice. With deep compassion and sensitivity, we follow three very different real-life figures who revealed their trauma to expose the church’s conspiracy.  While the […]

John Ajvide Lindqvists novell får nytt liv i Ali Abbasis egensinniga Cannesvinnare. Handlingen i Gräns kretsar kring tullpolisen Tina, som har ett sjätte sinne när det gäller att peka ut smugglare. Det är nästan som om hon kan lukta sig till när någon försöker dölja något. Ryktet om hennes skicklighet sprider sig inom poliskåren och […]