Staff Picks: Inauguration Edition 2021
It’s almost the end of the first month of 2021, and just over a week since the U.S. saw a new president take office. In light of the occasion, some of us highlighted our favorite political films below!

Mona is left alone in a large and empty house after her lover left for the war front. She gets no news from him for months. The days are long. The old walls retain the memory of a warm love for a while. Mona waits, hopes, and wades around the abandoned house, like a shadow of who she once was.
It’s almost the end of the first month of 2021, and just over a week since the U.S. saw a new president take office. In light of the occasion, some of us highlighted our favorite political films below!
A successful author’s life is upended when she finds herself on a plantation straight out of the antebellum south.
'Do Revenge' offers a 2022-relevant sociopolitical commentary that decries virtue signaling while promoting the inclusive virtues the nefarious power structures exploit.
An Indonesian film that brings strong representation of Asian descent in this heart-warming tale of a woman and her dog.
Like many things, like animals and people, they always evolve. When the first humans walked the Earth, they originated from Africa and were all black.
Another story focuses on the bond between a young man and a shelter dog in this Netflix drama film.