Butak is a mischievous young boy who lives with his grandparents in a village. He often makes people around him angry by his mischievous behaviours. One day, an opportunity presents itself which allows Butak to runaway from home. Longing to become a better person, Butak boards a ship from Penang and makes his way to Mecca. There, Butak prostrates himself before the Kaabah and repents his past behavior.
'An American Werewolf in London' possesses a possible queer reading in the way it envisions a heterosexual romance being undone by the presence of a creature who embodies self-contentment in the face of social alienation.
Alongside A Drowning Man, I Signed The Petition, 3 Logical Exits, and A World Not Ours, A Man Returned continues to paint a realistic portrait of the Refugee Crisis that eschews the Western gaze and stereotype. These are real portraits painted by a director with lived experience, cultural connection and an amazing eye for visuals.
Remember Caroline from Vampire Diaries? Well, now she’s The Suitcase Killer, allegedly.
Ruben Östlund muses about his characters, “As soon as you get close to a person, you see them as just another human being”. It is widely recognized that aboard the luxury yacht in ‘Triangle of Sadness’, the different groups of people represent a small society as a commentary on classism and gender binaries.
The live-action remake of the classic Disney film based on a wooden puppet is finally here.
In The Women and the Murderer, directors Mona Achache and Patricia Tourancheau center women—the very demographic true crime is designed to appeal to.
