The Sleepwalker Strangler (2009)

Our protagonists perform as the opposite gender while still preserving the parts of their personalities that makes themselves who they are.

An Indonesian film that brings strong representation of Asian descent in this heart-warming tale of a woman and her dog.

What seems like such a simple story of survival is so much more than that—it’s a story of family, and of war, and of destruction. It’s painful to watch, but not in a bad way. It makes its audience reflect on their own actions, and in how they are complicit in the sufferings of others as the adults in this film are. Grave of the Fireflies does not hold back from being heartbreaking, and it shouldn’t. It tells a message that needs to be heard decades after the war, and a story that cannot be forgotten by history.

"A Drowning Man" (2017) explores the unseen aspects of the Refugee Crisis. In, 15 far-too-short minutes, viewers are given a detailed snapshot of what it's like for a refugee to drown in the waters of poverty and otherness while trying to navigate a land whose promise has worn off, and only 'strange' remains.

Dora is the superhero we didn't know we needed.

This groundbreaking summer blockbuster proves that diversity enhances the action genre.