One of the best films of 2017 you didn’t see and one of the best films of that year, period? Francis Lee’s “God’s Own Country.” It was an astonishing feature-length debut and landed Lee immediately on every list imaginable where filmmakers-to-watch were concerned (“God’s Own Country” also won Sundance’s World Cinema directing award that year).
A gay love story, many would argue the film was the superior gay love story of that year too, besting “Call Me By Your Name,” and its timidness in showing gay love and sexuality onscreen.