Charlotte Valandrey

In the small town of Griffin Creek, on the eastern Canadian coast, a young drifter returns home after a five-year departure following a violent dispute with his father.

Sally Potter’s fearless adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s supposedly unfilmable book, Orlando was nine years in the making. This restlessly rule-bending, gender fluid, time-traveling epic—starring a dazzling Tilda Swinton on typically shape-shifting form—remains an unmatched feat of queer filmmaking.