15. Titane
Titane is an intense, visceral body horror and an identity exploration as it tells the story of a young woman who develops an unnatural relationship with machinery after a car accident that left her covered in a titanium plate on her head. The film enters into a much more conventional narrative of gender and family, and something rather bold is undertaken to grapple with trauma, love, and transformation. Its shameless visual style and incendiary subjects combine to create a range of emotions, thus making this piece an intensely personal yet universally true story about acceptance, self-discovery, and even embracing non-traditional ways of forming connections.
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Edited by Sarah Nazamuddin Harniswala