A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and is a masterful example of montage editing.

In his radical debut feature, Ousmane Sembène reveals the agony of the postcolonial experience through the story of a Senegalese migrant abused by her French employers. Eager to find a better life abroad, a Senegalese woman becomes a governess to a family in southern France where she suffers from discrimination and marginalization.

Céline Sciamma’s slow burning love story is a rich period piece about a female painter On an isolated island in Brittany who is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman. Stunning cinematography and a heartbreaking plot make it one of the best modern pieces of queer cinema. 

The extraordinary, internationally embraced Yi Yi (A One and a Two . . .), directed by the late Taiwanese master Edward Yang, follows a middle-class family in Taipei over the course of one year, beginning with a wedding and ending with a funeral. Warm, sprawling, and dazzling, this intimate epic is one of the undisputed masterworks of the new century.