Filmatique's Best of 2016
Sami Blood, Amanda Kernell (2016)
"Trump has the nuclear codes but we have a camera"
- Pablo Larraín
Cinema as a tool for social and political discourse has never been more important than in the punishing year of 2016. Let us be reminded that cinema seeks to portray the world we live in, in turn shaping that world—and any serious-minded work considers the weight of that task.
Thankfully, 2016 witnessed the creation of outstanding contemporary world cinema. Below are Filmatique's Top Films of the year:
American Honey, Andrea Arnold
Aquarius, Kleber Mendonça Filho
Don't Call Me Son, Anna Muylaert
El placer es mío, Elisa Miller
Frantz, François Ozon
Fuocoammare, Gianfranco Rosi
The Handmaiden, Park Chan-wook
Hedi, Mohamed Ben Attia
I, Daniel Blake, Ken Loach
Jackie, Pablo Larraín
The Land of the Enlightened, Pieter-Jan De Pue
Loving, Jeff Nichols
Much Loved, Nabil Ayouch
Neruda, Pablo Larraín
Radio Dreams, Babak Jalali
Raw, Julia Ducournau
La Región Salvaje, Amat Escalante
Safari, Ulrich Seidl
Sami Blood, Amanda Kernell
Things To Come, Mia Hansen-Løve
Toni Erdmann, Maren Ade
Une Vie, Stéphane Brizé
White Sun, Deepak Rauniyar
Une Vie, Stéphane Brizé (2016)