I'm most curious about Nate Parker's Nat Turner biopic, The Birth of a Nation; Clea DuVall's The Intervention; documentarian Asif Kapadia's fiction film, Ali & Nino, set in Azerbaijan at the outbreak of
World War I; John Carney's Dublin teen musical, Sing Street; Aaron Brookner's Uncle Howard, a tribute to his uncle, the filmmaker Howard Brookner; Robert Cannan and Ross Adam's The Lovers and the Despot, an investigation of the kidnapping of a South Korean director and his actress ex-wife by movie - mad Kim Jong - il, the
crazy but true story that is hilariously retold in David Cronenberg's debut novel,
Consumption; and Elite Zexer's Sand Storm, an Israeli - financed film, in Arabic, about two Bedouin women.