The Purpose of An X-Rated Encounter (2016)

The trainwreck is hot but tame.

This Japanese Anime movie is about Kanna, a young girl who sets on a quest across Japan to discover her true identity.

Unrelentingly funny, highly entertaining, and ridiculously absurd, My Movie Starring Paul Dano is, according to its creator, Joe Bartone, a tribute to the willful ignorance of independent filmmaking found in the late '70s in New York City. Developed through open discussions with the cast at the reading table, the mockumentary follows a delusional and fame-starved indie director, Herman Rumowicz, through the process of making his very first feature movie starring Paul Dano.

A haunting look at grief, survival, and a mother’s quiet collapse in a world that never gave her room to fall.

In Saudi Arabia, a little girl (Wadjda) is told she can't have a bike because she's a girl. Wadjda struggles to obtain a bicycle to race her friend, Abdullah, due to the gender inequality and cultural norms of Saudi Arabia.