Buoyancy is a harrowing realist drama that lifts the lid on the appalling treatment indentured (enslaved) foreign workers endure on Thailand’s fishing boats.
The Farewell
The Farewell contrasts Chinese and Western cultural values when a New York-based Chinese family return to the homeland to farewell the beloved terminally ill matriarch, who is unaware of her grim diagnosis. A funny, poignant, and ultimately uplifting dramedy.
Amazing Grace
Amazing Grace is an “instant” classic of the music doco genre, featuring a rhapsodic live gospel performance by Aretha Franklin at the height of her powers in 1972 (“instant” because the film has only just been released due to technical and legal issues – O happy day!).