308. Inflatable sex doll of the wasteland (1967)

Country: Japan Directed by Atsushi Yamatoya Japanese pinku creates, as a genre, a world capturing the essence of male gaze, as much as the mainstream hardcore porn does, however Yamatoya's film (and probably one dozen of other pinku films) manages to go beyond that, to a territory that surprisingly communicates authentically with the unconscious. Inflatable sex doll of the wasteland is a poetic, art house film, a dark, nihilistic dream, where the male characters seem to suffocate under a somehow abstract existential agony that never ends, same as their enormous thirst for vulnerable naked women bodies that, unresponsive as they are,can't give to them any type of salvation

307. Earth and ashes

Country: Afghanistan Directed by Atiq Rahimi The destruction, the mourning for the ones who got killed, the trauma, the total hopelessness. Without much drama but with precision Rahimi show us the devastating face of the war and how it deprives the human spirit from any joy and dreams. The vast landscapes of Afghanistan deserts that dominate the movie are the empty souls of the unlucky ones who survived and left behind

306. The white tiger (2021)

Country: India Directed by Ramin Bahrani As an easy to follow and understand, quite entertaining and well made commercial film, The White tiger conveys successfully its message exposing the multi layered exploitation of the poor in modern India, in a socio-economical system that is identical to slavery. The film depicts the total failure of Indian society to provide a decent life for the great majority of people, touching issues as the brutality of the upper classes, in an archaic, but still powerful, cast sustem, the strong, also exploitative, family hierarchy, the massive corruption of politicians and judges, the ineffectiveness of education and healthcare, the lack of opportunities for the low social classes to improve their tragic living conditions