Motel Destino
Karim Aïnouz’s neon-lit 2024 thriller is his most visually distinctive work yet, stirring up a tense, caged love story and an increasingly dangerous power struggle in the surreal environs of a seedy roadside motel.
Thriller
Medida Provisoria / Executive Order
Lázaro Ramos’ 2020 dystopian speculative thriller unpacks the racist past and present with a nightmare scenario in which Brazil tries to excise its Black population with a mass deportation order.
The Secret Agent: Where Memory Becomes a Mirror
Through the eyes of an academic on the run, Kleber Mendonça Filho’s acclaimed, quixotic opus honours the irreplaceable, ordinary lives and stories that a corrupt dictatorship and its enforcers snuff out – and the struggle to hold onto integrity, memory and life itself.