Many of these titles may be new to you. Some are independent, coloring outside the line. Some are from distant land. Some lost in time. But each has something unique – insight, innovation, a glimmer of something not seen before — worth it to explore.

The Day I Lost My Shadow

An independent film that looks at the Syrian civil war from a human perspective.

No glorious battles. No partisan messages. Just a mother trying to get a gas cannister so she can cook meals for her child – in a land where sanity has given way to savagery.

Soudade Kaadan – Syrian writer director

https://www.netflix.com/title/81418317

Minning Town

A funny and thought-provoking series about China’s program to alleviate rural poverty.

Gao Man Tang, Mo Xi – Chinese Writers

In the Life of Music

An independent film that examines three generations of life in Cambodia through the emotions generated by a single song.

Caylee So – Cambodian writer director

https://tv.apple.com/ Apple TV

MAKTUB

A comic independent film about gangsters who make the wishes of ordinary people come true.

Guy Amir & Hanan Savyon – Israeli writer-directors-actors

https://www.netflix.com/search?q=MAKTUB&jbv=80244547

The Phantom of Liberty

Surrealism meets filmmaking.
Luis Buñuel – Spanish writer-director

https://www.criterionchannel.com/videos/the-phantom-of-liberty

Ivan’s Childhood

War seen from a child’s perspective from influential writer-director

Andrey Tarkovsky – Russian writer-director