Film-Forward

Family drama

The Year of the Everlasting Storm

During the pandemic lockdown, filmmakers from all over the world contributed to this anthology. Some of the results are heartening and surprising.

Wildland

This tense, unnerving tale of an orphaned girl’s entrapment in a criminal family throbs with pain and danger under a tightly controlled surface.

The Macaluso Sisters

Emma Dante’s intense, punishing film follows five, then four siblings from a fateful childhood day through a harsh old age.

Eyimofe (This Is My Desire)

Two stories are told separately in intersecting vignettes. They are, though, united in their protagonists’ objectives: both are attempting to move overseas.

The Father

For most of the drama, Anthony Hopkins is at his very best.

Minari

If the skeleton of the family drama sounds somewhat familiar, the refreshing specificity of character and situation makes it feel new and unexpected.

CODA | Sundance Film Festival 2021

A heartfelt, straightforward, and familiar coming of ager that swept the awards at Sundance.

True Mothers

Japan’s 2020 Oscar submission explores parenthood through a young woman who wants her child back from the couple who have adopted him.

My Little Sister

A blocked playwright (played by Nina Hoss) tries to keep her terminally ill actor/twin brother (Lars Eidinger) alive for a last theatrical hurrah.