The iiF team went through the Jio MAMI Mumbai Film Festival 2017 with bleary eyes and heavy brains. We watched over 40 films between ourselves, and have lived to give you a quick-and-dirty report card — a list that might help you decide what to watch over the next year when these films become available online. For easy reference, we will divide the list into five categories: perfection (5/5), excellence (4/5), greatness (3.5/5), goodness (3/5) and averageness (2/5).

Here goes.

on body

5/5

SUMMER 1993 (Spain)
ON BODY AND SOUL (Hungary)
LOVELESS (Russia)
BEAUTY AND THE DOGS (Tunisia)
WAJIB (Palestine)

call me by your name

4/5

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (Italy)
THE FLORIDA PROJECT (USA)
MOST BEAUTIFUL ISLAND (USA)
THELMA (Norway)
THE SQUARE (Sweden)
BEACH RATS (USA)
A FANTASTIC WOMAN (Chile)
A SUITABLE GIRL (USA/India)
ASK THE SEXPERT (India)
THE PARTY (UK)
A GENTLE CREATURE (Ukraine)
PUSHKAR PURAN (India)
THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE (Finland)
DAHA (Turkey)

mother

3.5/5

MOTHER! (USA)
GOOD TIME (USA)
MACHINES (India)
THE DAY AFTER (South Korea)
THE QUEST (USA)
THE DEPARTURE (USA)
BRIGSBY BEAR (USA)
AJJI (India)
VILLAGE ROCKSTARS (India)
DINA (USA)

scary mother

3/5

REDOUBTABLE (France)
MUKKABAAZ (India)
WINTER BROTHERS (Iceland)
CENTAUR (Kyrgyztan)
SPOOR (Poland)
SCARY MOTHER (Georgia)
I AM NOT A WITCH (Zambia)
FELICITE (Congo)

bright

2/5

FREE AND EASY (China)
BRIGHT SUNSHINE IN (France)
WONDERSTRUCK (USA)