PETITE MAMAN (2021) and AFTERSUN (2022)

Why we picked it

"Petite Maman is short and sweet, yet fearlessly profound. A mix of fairytale, ghost story and rites-of-passage journey, this is at heart a cinematic parable about healing intergenerational wounds, about breaching the barriers that inevitably grow between parents and children." Mark Kermode (The Observer) "What’s most refreshing about Petite Maman is that it doesn’t play coy with its magic, nor does it separate it from the sadder, darker reality that surrounds it." Odie Henderson (RogerEbert.com) "A stunning debut that develops with the gradual poignancy of a Polaroid, Charlotte Wells’ Aftersun isn’t just an honest movie about the way that we remember the people we’ve lost — fragmented, elusive, nowhere and everywhere all at once — it’s also a heart-stopping act of remembering unto itself." David Ehrlich (IndieWire) "That a director can summon such emotional maturity paired with grand narrative originality in her first outing, particularly working from a deeply personal standpoint,