The Phoenician Scheme: A Man of No Identity
Wes Anderson offers a light-hearted comedy in the Middle East centering around Catholic motifs.

Julia, a young playwright, spends the night awake trying to finish her work. Through dance, she begins a personal search, inhabiting and interpreting the characters she is writing about. In this cathartic dynamic, it is the characters themselves who challenge her to confront what prevents her from finishing her work.
Wes Anderson offers a light-hearted comedy in the Middle East centering around Catholic motifs.
I write for a diversity-focused film review blog, so I’ll be honest: I really wanted to like Pretty Lethal. Starring Maddie Ziegler, Lana Condor, Iris Apatow, Avantika, and Millicent Simmonds, Amazon Prime’s new thriller seemed like it would be a girl power movie about dancers with a horror action twist. Sort of a Suspiria for teens. But with shallow and unlikeable characters, a confusing plot, an overreliance on violence, and cringey dialogue, any fun the movie started out with was quickly lost. What was left was a faint echo of greater horror movies about dancers made before.
The clever but socially-awkward Tetê joins a new school, and she'll do anything to fit in.
The short documentary and second place winner of the Incluvie Short Film Festival, Gender Outlaw: A Bodysurfing Story, challenges any simplistic understanding of trans people.