This follows an innocent woman in China in the 1990s, kidnapped and then sold to a man in the mountains. The film focuses on this woman and her many attempts at escape. The proceeds are fashioned in a neo-neo-realist way, showing the various attempts at escape by her. Something that hits even harder isn't just the husband himself -- and, believe us, his victim playing will make one stick to the stomach -- but to the people around her that…

Starring the filmmaker himself, this is an art piece -- a kind of slow cinema piece about a man who was lynched, accused of raping a teenager. An innocent man, the film details how the exact brutality done to him in a voice over... and the visuals display what was done, taking exact influence from photographs of Embree at the lynching from the time. Included are harrowing POVs, and a chilling final wide shot, with the perpetrators staring coldly at…

ORDERS follows an unnamed soldier, gone AWOL, marching aimlessly through this Western facade of pleasantry, running into others such as a fellow soldier dining on a giant watermelon and a family full of 90s edgey sitcom characters. What the two are getting at, here, is not only modern warfare -- untreated PTSD, bringing the war home, why war is okay anywhere, etc. but also the house of cards that is the modern state, a system built to manufacture subdued human…

This Greek weird wave film, and director, never found the success that the director of Dogtooth or even the director Tsangari has gotten, and you may know why -- it may be just a little too weird, a little too dry, for some people. But if you are adventurous, then this is the kind of film for you. We have a man, living in his car, meeting his family in a parking lot every day. His job? Bringing honey to…