This short is a special episode of the ChinChins, a Belarusian YouTube political satire comedy series about midwit bureaucrats Sergei Nikolaevich and Nikolai Sergeevich bumbling commenting on "problems" in their surroundings with their braindead post-Soviet analysis, sometimes accompanied by the adorably oblivious singer Elena ZheludOK.

This particular episode features the two bureaucrats trying to coerce a singer (who's hiding in a mental asylum after having lost her voice) into singing for a patriotic event. The story itself is a blunt…

White on White is depicts the Selknam genocide in Tierra del Fuego (in which settlers at behest of their quasi-feudal baronial ranchers enslaved and massacred thousands of Selknam people to clear them off the land) through the eyes of a photographer watching the violence unfold with increasing moral paralysis. However, while this film is quite commendable in breaking ground on addressing this topic and being really beautifully shot (including a strong, morbid final scene), it ultimately doesn't say too much…

Arzé is a beautifully made and very heartfelt dramedy following the titular character, a single mother running a home bakery to support her rebellious teenage son and her PTSD-ridden sister, as she finds herself traversing the city in pursuit of her stolen delivery scooter. This conceit creates the opportunity for the film to take us through all the different ethnosectarian neighbourhoods and cultural stereotypes that make up Beirut's rich and complicated fabric--Armenian, Sunni, Shiite, Maronite, Palestinian, maybe others I didn't…

"Once Upon a Time in Uganda" is a documentary about the rise of cult action movie studio Wakaliwood in Uganda, and its founder Isaac Nabwana and his New Yorker "muzunga" partner Alan Hofmanis. In one sense, this doc is a stylishly filmed tribute to some of the world's most unironically joyful filmmakers, and seeing a part of their world and hard work will guarantee to bring a smile to your face. I really enjoyed the parts of this doc that…

A brilliantly made political comedy intertwining two threads of modernity's impact on Bhutan: political modernity (being the introduction of democracy in a country that didn't see the need for it) and economic modernity (being the introduction of capitalism in a traditional economic system that prioritizes karma-based exchanges and gifting). This clash between tradition and modernity is of course the source of most zany antics in the film, but every joke told reveals something insightful about not only aspects of Bhutanese…