Baggage (2026): Surrealistic Visual Language and Confront the Past
Baggage’s experimental mixed formats visualized a woman’s brave inner journey of visiting the museum of her fragmented memories.

Hemant, a scribe who is wrongfully sentenced to jail. He sends his children, Bulu and Runu, to stay with a family acquaintance for their safety. However, the children flee and take shelter at a stranger doctor's place. The doctor's son, Lalit, is a rebel who wants to remove injustice by force. Lalit and his wife, Sumitra, take care of the children, and when Hemant is released from jail, he recognizes Lalit's revolutionary spirit. The circumstances turn ripe for revolutionary changes, but societal apathy and passiveness thwart any such possibilities. The movie ends with a ray of hope provided by the children.
Baggage’s experimental mixed formats visualized a woman’s brave inner journey of visiting the museum of her fragmented memories.
Netflix’s Shadow and Bone has a complicated relationship with race. It has a diverse cast, but not without its problems. Based on Leigh Bardugo’s two book series, the show features characters from the Shadow and Bone trilogy, which is very straight and white, and the Six of Crows duology, which is much more diverse. When bringing together a cast and writing about these characters, the team behind the show expanded upon some of the representation missing from the first trilogy, then seemed to take away representation from the duology. Shadow and Bone seems to play a bit of a push and pull game when it comes to portraying diversity onscreen.
A film for the post-MeToo era that inverts the narrative with an ironic coda, Tár depicts the duality of a sensitive artist capable of great evil and vile manipulation.
Friendships are tested when two girls have a crush on the popular boy at school.
I came across Urchin by chance and decided to watch it because of the title. It made me think of the spiky animal that lives at the bottom of the ocean, and the old Dickensian novels, where an urchin was an orphaned, homeless child in shaggy and dirty clothes.