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Drama

The rich human condition told with a straight face, this is the mother of all genres. So if it doesn't fit snugly anywhere else it's usually Drama...

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Savage (2020)

Dir. Sam Kelly
Feat. Jake Ryan, John Tui, Chelsie Preston-Crayford

Powerful drama inspired by the history of NZ's gangs, following a young boy in three different stages of life from the 1960's to the 1980's, as he grows to question his sense of belonging to both his real and gang families.

Bait (2019)

Dir. Mark Jenkin
Feat. Edward Rowe, Simon Shepherd, Giles King…

A fisherman in a picturesque Cornish village finds his traditional way of life threatened by gentrification in this experimental but dramatically compelling film from Cornwall born-and-bred writer-director Mark Jenkin. A bold and singular vision retro-forged in hand-processed black-and-white 16mm film…

Calm With Horses (2019)

Dir. Nick Rowland
Feat. Cosmo Jarvis, Barry Keoghan, Ned Dennehy

Bleak and unflinching Irish crime drama following the fate of a troubled former boxer descending into a complex ecosystem of crime.

Assistant, The (2019)

Dir. Kitty Green
Feat. Julia Garner, Matthew MacFadyen, Makenzie Leigh…

A searing, beautifully modulated indictment of toxic office culture in the wake of the #MeToo movement, that follows the daily routine of an intern at a film production company. With very little "drama", the film draws its power from the understated veracity of Julia Garner's performance, who finds herself…

Radioactive (2019)

Dir. Marjane Satrapi
Feat. Rosamund Pike, Sam Riley, Aneurin Barnard…

Biopic about Marie Curie, with Rosamund Pike playing the nobel-prize winning French physicist and chemist who pioneered research into radioactivity. Directed by Marjane Satrapi (PERSEPOLIS).

Wendy (2019)

Dir. Benh Zeitlin
Feat. Devin France, Yashua Mack, Gage Naquin…

A visionary reimagining of the Peter Pan story from director Benh Zeitlin, with two children from different worlds fighting to hold onto their youthful freedom and joy in the face of growing up in the rural American South. Filled with all the gorgeous stylistic flourishes that made Zeitlin's earlier film…

Last Black Man in San Francisco, The (2019)

Dir. Joe Talbot
Feat. Jimmie Fails, Jonathan Majors, Tichina Arnold…

An impressionistic drama exploring the current American housing crisis from the perspective of a young black man attempting to reclaim his childhood home in a since gentrified San Francisco neighborhood. An beautiful depiction of the city in flux.