Best of the Month: December 2021
A trio of animations make up the S/W team's final Best of the Month playlist from our 2021 coverage.
A trio of animations make up the S/W team's final Best of the Month playlist from our 2021 coverage.
**CURRENTLY OFFLINE** - In Tadeusz Lysiak's Oscar-shortlisted film a maid working in a rundown motel in rural Poland longs for intimacy, but will the repeated visits of an intriguing truck driver change the loneliness of her situation? (Link opens in new window)
Deep in Arkansas, wandering souls mine for diamonds but unearth their ghosts.
The Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was perhaps the most widely documented act of political violence in history. The New York Times obtained, analyzed and mapped out thousands of cellphone videos, police bodycam recordings and internal police audio to provide the most complete picture to date of what happened.
A vulnerable glimpse into the decisions - simple and complex - a young woman must make while navigating a busy workday in New York City.
In order to be in her older brother’s music video, Clara, a 13-year-old tomboy, agrees to undergo a radical change of style. She soon notices that this transformation changes her brother’s friend’s behaviour towards her.
Mr. P. N. K. Panicker's account of his terribly real, horribly frightening and completely true ghost sightings!
Distinctively captured via Light Detection and Ranging equipment (LiDAR), this meditative short that played Sundance 2021 centers on a protagonist spurred to introspection when an AI algorithm denies his life insurance application.
This is a film about stuttering. Oh, and also about apple trees, catcallers, Goethe's Faust, pigeons, forests and girls on horses.
With our annual Short Awards planned for Early 2022, to round off our yearly coverage we take a look at the S/W team's favourite films from 2021.