You’re looking to be inspired. You can guide yourself following your taste or an opinion, but it’s about finding something that will get you and others excited.

It might be an impulse to plunge into the filmography of a Brazilian director from the 1980s whose seminal film made an indelible mark on you (Héctor Babenco’s Pixote)

It might be the new film by one of the most esteemed auteurs living today

(Yorgos Lanthimos’ Nimic)

Or it might be the dazzling image you glimpsed while going through a film festival’s lineup: in short, it can be many things! An informed decision inspired by film history, a burning desire to watch a favourite actor, a fierce compelling story or an aesthetic instinct—it’s a gut feeling that never fails.