My Best Friend's Christmas (2019)

Another story focuses on the bond between a young man and a shelter dog in this Netflix drama film.

I understood post-memory as passing down stories and images of one’s experiences that are not your own. For decades, rape has been depicted in cinema through a third-person perspective, leaving the viewer to observe rape; not to experience it. 

‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ is preoccupied with plot and not on the greater struggle of the Osage.

Some people’s first introduction to Mira Nair might be as New York mayor Zohran Mamdani’s mom. But with her insightful direction of 1991’s Mississippi Masala, Nair shows how much she deserves to be known as an artist. Delivering a nuanced portrait of a romance between a Black man and an Indian woman living in the South, Nair explores the complications each character faces, giving both equal weight.

Meander, released in 2021, is a French gory horror film featuring a woman trapped in small spaces as she fights for her life, paralleling real pandemic life.

The Franke kids seemingly lived a normal life, until their mom met the infamous Jodi Hilderbrandt.