Top 2024 films! Because most of the world usually won't have access to the real best of that year until the next 2 years or so
Arranged alphabetically bc ranking is hard!
purple - directed by women, pink - LGBT cinema, though sometimes it's both
Abiding Nowhere, directed by Tsai Ming-liang (Taiwan +) Afternoons of Solitude, a documentary by Albert Serra (Spain) (honorary gay one tbh) Alipato at Muog, a documentary by JL Burgos (Philippines)
All We Imagine As Light, directed by Payal Kapadia (India) Blue Sun Palace, directed by Constance Tsang Caught by the Tides, directed by Jia Zhangke (China)
Dahomey, a documentary by Mati Diop (Senegal) Daughters, a documentary by Angela Patton & Natalie Rae Dead Talents Society, directed by John Hsu (Taiwan)
Flow, directed by Gints Zilbalodis (Latvia) Girls Will Be Girls, directed by Shuchi Talati (India) Good One, directed by India Donaldson
Grand Tour, directed by Miguel Gomes (Portugal +) Hard Truths, directed by Mike Leigh I’m Still Here, directed by Walter Salles (Brazil)
Kill the Jockey, directed by Luis Ortega (Argentina) La Cocina, directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios (Mexico) Manas, directed by Marianna Brennand (Brazil)
Memoir of a Snail, directed by Adam Elliot Misericordia, directed by Alain Guiraudie My Old Ass, directed by Megan Park
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl, directed by Rungano Nyoni (Zambia) The Outrun, by Nora Fingscheidt The Seed of the Sacred Fig, directed by Mohammad Rasoulof (Iran)
Small Things Like These, directed by Tim Mielants Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, a documentary by Johan Grimonprez Sugarcane, a documentary by Emily Kassie & Julian Brave NoiseCat
