Films like Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories.

Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories (2015) reads as Sombre, measured, measured drama / arthouse, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured. Every film below is ranked by distance across the same twelve hand-scored axes — with what it keeps, and where it walks away. Not a genre dump.

Solo, Solitude (2016) poster
1. Solo, Solitude2016

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Laila in Haifa (2020) poster
2. Laila in Haifa2020

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

We the Animals (2018) poster
3. We the Animals2018

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Hotel Império (2018) poster
4. Hotel Império2018

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Pendular (2017) poster
5. Pendular2017

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Memories of My Body (2018) poster
6. Memories of My Body2018

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

You Will Die at Twenty (2019) poster
7. You Will Die at Twenty2019

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

What Now? Remind Me (2013) poster
8. What Now? Remind Me2013

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Forest of Echoes (2012) poster
9. Forest of Echoes2012

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Concrete Clouds (2013) poster
10. Concrete Clouds2013

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Youth (2015) (2015) poster
11. Youth2015

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

Youth (Sorrentino 2015) — re-pass (2015) poster
12. Youth (Sorrentino 2015) — re-pass2015

Keeps the patient, unhurried pace and the cold, bleak undertow — one of the nearest reads in the catalogue.

These are Big Father, Small Father and Other Stories’s neighbours — where are yours?

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