We’re still nursing a cinema-sized hangover after this year’s Mumbai Film Festival. As expected, it was seven days of pure, unadulterated, uncompromising film watching.
Between us at iiF, we managed to catch around 40 feature-length films over the week.

To give you a generalĀ idea of what to watch (download/stream/buy) for the rest of the year, or which titles to look out for next awards season, here’s our extremely reductive report card (marks out of 5) of every film we watched. We wanted to write a few lines about each of them, but for now, the simple ratings should help you choose straight up.

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5/5 CREAM OF THE CROP

I, Daniel Blake (dir: Ken Loach)
Graduation (dir: Cristian Mungiu)
The Cinema Travellers (dir: Shirkey Abraham, Amit Madheshiya)

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4/5 GREATNESS

The Salesman (dir: Asghar Farhadi)
Manchester by the Sea (dir: Kenneth Lonergan)
Sandstorm (dir: Elite Zexer)
The Lovers and the Despot (dir: Ross Adam, Robert Cannan)
My Life as a Courgette (dir: Claude Barras)
Clash (dir: Mohamed Diab)
After The Storm (dir: Hirokazu Kore-eda)
A Death in the Gunj (dir: Konkana Sen Sharma)
Trapped (dir: Vikramaditya Motwane)
Neruda (dir: Pablo Larrain)
Elle (dir: Paul Verhoeven)
Tower (dir: Keith Maitland)
The Wailing (dir: Na Hong-jin)
Wild (dir: Nicolette Krebitz)
Apprentice (dir: Boo Junfeng)
Lost in Paris (dir: Fiona Gordon, Dominique Abel)
Things To Come (dir: Mia Hansen-Love)
Aquarius (dir: Kleber Mendonca Filho)

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3/5 GOODNESS

The Red Turtle (dir: Michael Dudok de Wit)
The Untamed (dir: Amat Escalante)
Under the Shadow (dir: Babak Anvari)
Goodbye Berlin (dir: Fatih Akin)
Diamond Island (dir: Davy Chou)
Personal Shopper (dir: Olivier Assayas)
Certain Women (dir: Kelly Reichardt)
Nocturama (dir: Bertrand Bonello)
Hounds of Love (dir: Ben Young)
Everything Else (dir: Natalia Almada)
Oscuro Animal (dir: Felipe Guerrero)
The Commune (dir: Thomas Vinterberg)
Amdavad Ma Famous (dir: Hardik Mehta)
Barakah Meets Barakah (dir: Mahmoud Sabbagh)
The Similars (dir: Isaac Ezban)
Cecilia (dir: Pankaj Johar)
Autohead (dir: Rohit Mittal)
Lipstick Under My Burkha (dir: Alankrita Shrivastava)
An Insignificant Man (dir: Khushboo Ranka, Vinay Shukla)
LOEV (dir: Sudhanshu Saria)

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2/5 WHAT?

Slack Bay (dir: Bruno Dumont)
Hermia & Helena (dir: Matias Piniero)
The Bait (dir: Buddhadeb Dasgupta)
Multiple Maniacs (dir: John Waters)