The North Wind is a surreal story about a matriarchic aristocrat family who can live an extra hour (the thirteenth or the twentyfith) in the day. When the fiancee of the promising male heir dies unexpectedly, it sends the family in decay. Told almost exclusively through yearly family gatherings on New Year's Eve the surrealness of how their luxurious lifestyle crumbles is only emphasized stronger. The costume and set design is gorgeous but due to its structure the film feels more like an elaborate (albeit intriguing) stageplay.
Madalena is a so-so drama about three characters who are connected by a missing woman, revealed in the opening shot to have been killed and dumped in a field. The how and why is never addressed as it only follows how it affects the three characters' ordinary lives but it doesn't offer enough insight to really make you care.
It wouldn't be IFFR without social satire fukkery from Brazil, and
Carro Rei (King Car) is fukkery of the highest order. A young student who can communicate with cars and his uncle, a handicapped but gifted mechanic, pimp up a sentient car from his childhood. When a tax is introduced aimed to ban older cars from the streets, the three start pimping other old cars to circumvene the tax. Of course the sentient and power hungry car has bigger plans in an environmentally conscious take on Christine. As the RZA would say, fukkin' ridiculous.
I'm not gonna pretend I fully understood what was going in this flick since most of the film plays out as dream sequences of traumatized people stuck in an old mansion. What this film also is? fukking gorgeous to look at. 
Shot in stark black & white it features some amazing cinematography that makes even the vaguest of scenes look absolutely beautiful. I scored this shyt an 8/10 just because of it. The bar has been set for 2021.
Am i the only person that really liked The Orville ? They need to drop season 3
