The collaboration between Isabelle Huppert and Claire Denis the world had been dreaming of, arrived with this powerful story about the death throes of white colonialism. Denis—who grew up in French Africa—returns to her roots with this sublime, poetic yet nightmarish exploration of racial conflict.

In this blazingly feminist masterwork of Afrofuturism, Cameroonian iconoclast Jean-Pierre Bekolo places fearless sex workers at the vanguard of a revolution. Coating its social commentary in stylish genre thrills, The Bloodiest unmasks corrupt politicians as the real vampires hiding in plain sight.