The Jio MAMI 2023 Watchlist: World Movies

Team FC

Maestro, Bradley Cooper

A biopic of American conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein, who (in addition to being a musical genius) was a devoted husband and unapologetically attracted to men.

La Chimera, Alice Rohrwacher

A grieving Englishman who has lost the woman he loved teams up with a bizarre gang of grave-robbers. Folklore, realism, superstition, crime and dreams all come together — and there’s Isabella Rossellini. 

20 Days in Mariupol, Mstyslav Chernov

A team of journalists who were trapped in the besieged city captured defining images of the ongoing war in Ukraine. The film won the audience award at Sundance Film Festival. 

Evgeniy Maloletka

Celluloid Underground, Ehsan Khoshbakht

A cinematic essay saluting cinephile Ahmad Jurghanian, who, in the aftermath of the Islamic Revolution of 1979 in Iran, hid thousands of reels of film in basement locations around Tehran to prevent their destruction.

The Monk and the Gun, Pawo Choyning Dorji

Bhutan’s official entry to the Oscars, the film was part of the official selections at Toronto International Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival and Busan International Film Festival.

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