The idea is to interact in an empathetic way with culture through the medium of film. So hopefully, we will be exposed to sensibilities and ways of being that we would not normally know of or understand.
At least some part of cultural understanding might be to recognize the diverse attitudes to moments and movements in time, different approaches to story telling, and the construction of humour. By choosing (a) local directors with different techniques of film making, I am hoping we will have a glimpse of these aspects of culture as well through the films we watch. I have tried to make the selection (b) culturally diverse (but with English subtitles!).
For convenience, I have also limited the choice to films that (c) can be rented from Amazon.co.uk, which means some very promising films can't make the list. The last arbitrary filtering process I have applied is to only select (d) very recent films -- made after 2000.
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