Before Denis Villeneuve had made his unexpected rise as a director of cerebral blockbusters with the likes of Arrival, he confronted the subject of the 1989 Polytechnique massacre in Montreal to pay tribute to the victims with this powerful film on the futility of violence. Difficult, yet essential.

Following her audacious Babysitter, Monia Chokri continues to flip the script on genre conventions with this smart and sexy romantic comedy. Bathed in a warm, hazy glow reminiscent of 1970s cinema classics, lusty entanglements and philosophical conundrums have never looked so swooningly erotic.