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Mija, a girl in the Korean mountains, has raised a giant pig named Okja for ten years. Then the Mirando Corporation, which engineered the 'super pigs,' comes to take her back to New York for a PR contest. Bong Joon-ho mixes a children's fable, a corporate satire and a rescue chase, and Tilda Swinton and Jake Gyllenhaal play it all the way over the top.

Why it’s here: The film is a kid-and-animal story with a corporate-capitalism argument hiding in the middle. What's punk is that the activists are flawed too. What's pedagogical is how clearly it shows the marketing that makes a factory sound like a farm. Pairs with The Corporation and Parasite. Contains slaughterhouse scenes, so check it before a kid watches.

The film follows the Cambridge Analytica scandal through three people: David Carroll, a professor suing to get his own data back; Brittany Kaiser, a former company insider; and Carole Cadwalladr, the reporter who broke the story. It lays out how a political consultancy used Facebook data to build voter profiles and target them with tailored messages.

Why it’s here: The film makes data harvesting feel like something done to you personally, and shows how profiling was turned into political persuasion. What's punk is Carroll's lawsuit and Cadwalladr's reporting. What's pedagogical is the explanation of what data-brokering is. Note: it frames Kaiser as a conscience-stricken whistleblower, which is arguable, and the real impact of the targeting is still debated. Pairs with Your Face Belongs to Us, Data and Goliath and Citizenfour.