Best of the Month
Best of the Month: August 2024
Big Cats, the housing crisis and queer line dancing all feature in our Best of the Month picks for August 2024.
Dark Comedy
Santiago Menghini
Red Wine
A vengeful man intends to poison his former colleague's glass of wine at a fundraising event, but his plot is compromised when he realizes there has been a mix-up.
Documentary
Liberty Smith
What Are You Looking At?
Angela Charles shares the challenges of losing her sight as a visual artist, and her experience of ‘coming out’ to everyone after years of hiding it.
Sci‑Fi
Mdhamiri A Nkemi
original skin
In an alternate world where having sex means swapping bodies with the other person, a young woman struggles to be herself, defying her small conservative community where swapping is taboo. A deeply intimate portrait of identity in transition.
Horror
James Berry
Out To Run: A Tale of Blood Velvet
A gay couple finally have a chance for a shared future when everything gets turned on its head.
Dramedy
James Michael Chiang
Xie Xie, Ollie
In his efforts to connect with his Chinese heritage, a biracial man discovers challenges and complexities he may not have expected.
Dark Comedy
Gabriel Nóbrega
& Lucas René
La Pursé
A taxidermist attempts to profess his love for his neighbor - a nearsighted and forgetful woman who owns a scrawny, half-starved cat.
Documentary
Darcy Prendergast
Strange Beasts
During its decade of operation, the Bacchus Marsh Lion Safari was one of Victoria’s most popular tourist attractions... now one of its greatest mysteries.
Dark Comedy
Grant Curatola
East End
The sordid details of a vicious crime are recounted and remixed through the rumor mill of a community gripped by paranoid fear and morbid curiosity.
Drama
Pulkit Arora
Anu
When a recent widow moves to New Zealand from India, she's forced to confront her grief by completing an ordinary ritual in an extraordinary circumstance: quarantine.
