Watchlist: Running out of streaming options? Catch 5 international movies on OTT before they leave!

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This month's picks include a coming-of-age story set in Quebec, an observational Tunisian drama, an erotic French movie about a strip club and more.

'Kuessipan'

This gorgeous French Canadian drama opens with two orbs of light approaching the camera in a dark, nocturnal frame. Slowly, the joyous faces of a pair of young Innu girls come into view, bathed in the glow of headlamps, as they delight in a night-fishing expedition with their families. «Kuessipan» jumps ahead soon after to Mikuan and Shaniss' teen years, fraught with conflicts and complications, but that luminous sense of possibility lingers throughout. The two girls are still close, but lead entirely different lives. The studious, ambitious Mikuan dreams of going to university outside the reservation and becoming a writer, while Shaniss struggles to raise her baby with her abusive husband.

Director Myriam Verreault beautifully mixes joy and tragedy, offering a view of Indigenous life that feels both authentic and bereft of cliché. As both Mikuan's naive optimism and Shaniss' cynicism are tempered over the course of the film, they arrive at a truth somewhere in the middle: that while the world is an unfair and unequal place, they can dream of a different one. (Stream it on Amazon Prime Video.)

'Under the Fig Trees'

Erige Sehiri's film was Tunisia's submission to the international feature category at the Oscars this past year, and it's unfortunate that it wasn't nominated, because this observational drama is a miraculous, and very worthy, gem. Sehiri builds