Thread by @NetflixFilm

Here’s a challenge — who can watch every one of these hidden gems by the end of the year? Each brings a powerful, varied voice to the stage through @ava’s production company Array, which amplifies films made by women filmmakers and people of color.

Tag us with your progress!

THE BODY REMEMBERS WHEN THE WORLD BROKE OPEN — After a traumatic event, two Indigenous women in Vancouver are brought together and form a deep bond despite leading different lives.

FUNNY BOY — A student must navigate issues of sexuality, identity, and family amid Sri Lanka’s social turmoil of the 1980s and 1980s.

AINU MOSIR — A sensitive Ainu teen searches for a spiritual connection with his recently deceased dad while navigating his indigenous identity in a changing world.

JEZEBEL — During the internet’s infancy, a vulnerable woman follows her sister into the sex industry as a webcam model but her sudden popularity tests their bond.

BURNING CANE — A lonely mother, an unemployed son, and a grieving pastor question their faith, each in their own way.

LINGUA FRANCA — An undocumented trans woman seeking legal status in the US becomes romantically involved with the grandson of the elderly woman she cares for.

RESIDUE — A young screenwriter returns to his hometown to write a script based on his childhood and discovers his neighborhood has been gentrified.

JUSTINE — A widowed, single mom takes a job caring for a young girl with spina bifida, and the two discover they have more in common than they realized.