Reflecting on the world, family situations, encounters and disagreements, new ways of seeing society at any stage when watching a cinematic work is something that only adds to our thinking. With that in mind, we’ve put together a list of 10 titles that, no matter when you watch them, will be important in reflecting on the world around you. So, below, 10 films with timeless reflections:
Our mothers
The depths of an endless sea. In his first feature-length fiction film, filmmaker Cesar Diaz shines brightly, bringing audiences a deep and honest intrigue about chance rediscovering memories of very difficult times. Impactful and with many reflections on the suffering experienced by many characters, the project recalls a time when the suffering did not seem to be the truth. The best way to define this beautiful work is that they are the counterpoints of generations searching for answers in sad times. Timeless, to never forget everything that happened. Nuestras Madres is a co-production of Guatemala, France and Belgium, it was nominated by the latter to be its competitor for the 2020 Oscar for best foreign film.
Enjoy watching:
permanence
In the plot, we meet Ivo (Irandhir Santos) a photographer from Recife who arrives in São Paulo for his first personal exhibition. He decides to stay with an old love, Rita (Rita Carelli) now married and a little changed from what he remembered her. Navigating in the doldrums of uncertainty, the main character of this story tries to rediscover himself as an artist, to have more security in his professional life and above all to find himself in the living.
cosmopolis
Based on a book by Don DeLillo, in Cosmopolis we witness metaphors and more metaphors in deep and truly intelligent dialogues that mark the film which stars Robert Pattinson. Speaking of time and advances in technology, in his thoughts on the fate of society, David Cronenberg creates a tape made to be timeless.
What is Vadis, Aida?
In the plot, set in the mid-90s, we meet Aida (Jasna Đuričić), a former teacher and now a UN translator/interpreter who is dealing with a chaotic time in her country taken over by an army of vengeful soldiers who practically swept the town of Srebrenica. The only safe haven is the UN base in the area, commanded by high-ranking Dutch officers, where all the survivors, including Aida’s two children and husband, flee. Seeking solutions/choices all the time, negotiating a lot with everyone she knows, Aida will live days that will never leave her memory.
ghost tropic
When chance opens our eyes to the world. Written and directed by 38-year-old Belgian filmmaker Bas Devos, Tropic Phantom manages to intrigue in less than 90 minutes by making us find meaning when nothing is as it seems. We witness a social metaphor that complements the filling of space in life, like contemplative subjects absorbed by a character who becomes a protagonist in the lives of many he meets along the way. Long shots, a splitter and a dizzying, ecstatic ending. Centered on a character who is in a moment of cogitabunda, walking the cold streets of European dawn, we are taken on a journey about the need to know our social environment better.
white lie
In the plot, we meet Katie (Kacey Rohl), a young woman who has her hair completely shaved and who has engaged in several campaigns in her community to raise money for her treatments, as she tells everyone that she has cancer. But none of this is true, she lies, even to her girlfriend Jennifer (Amber Anderson), one of the people who helps her the most in all her fundraising projects. Close to surpassing the $24,000 donation mark, Katie begins to have trouble with her lie when she needs a truthful statement about her condition.
Eeb Allay Ooo!
In the plot, we meet Anjani (Shardul Bharadwaj), a good guy, who is unemployed and lives almost in grace with his sister who is pregnant and her husband who is in the municipal guard. One day, Anjani gets a job, but it won’t be easy, as her new job is to scare away the monkeys, those who insist on messing up situations in New Delhi. Inventing the most unusual ways possible to scare the animals, because he has a strong fear of them, the protagonist will have to face several difficulties in search of survival in a huge populated city but without opportunities for everyone.
what will they say
In the plot, we meet young Nisha (Maria Mozhdah), who lives with her family in Norway. They are of Pakistani origin and live a simple life, where their father, Mirza (Adil Hussain) has a small grocery store which is doing well and Nisha, in addition to living as a young woman far from family traditions when she is with friends, devotes herself to studies being one of the best in her class. But this relationship between father and daughter becomes quite turbulent when one evening, Nisha is spotted by her father in her room with a boyfriend. From there, the trajectory of the 16-year-old girl changes radically.
nocturama
In the plot, we meet young people of different ethnicities who have spread across a major French city plotting something that is gradually revealed. A little of the daily life of these young people, even on the day of the action, shows that they are ordinary people who do not generate any kind of alert from the police. As night approaches, they gather in a multi-story clothing store, where a terrifying plan of multiple attacks in previously investigated locations is exposed. During this night many questions will be addressed and the script returns in something like flashbacks to explain a bit how they got to this day.
The apartment
In the plot, we are introduced to the married couple Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti) and Emad (Shahab Hosseini), who are also actors and stage the famous play The Death of the Traveling Salesman, by Arthur Miller. From one rehearsal to another, the couple has to move in haste and end up finding an apartment in another part of town. In this new place, an unexpected event changes the couple’s routine forever.
