So it’s not like I expected Transformers 3 to be any good. Transformers 2 wasn’t a very good movie, but I’d gone to see it at IMAX, and it was awesome. In Transfromers 2, the plot was almost nonexistent but the action almost constant (or so I remember), and the scale of it all was captured really well. During a scene where Optimus Prime fights two Decepticons in and over a forest, you could feel the ground shaking and trees falling over with their giant footsteps. And so I prepared myself, with the advent of the third instalment, for another semi-pleasurable IMAX experience, this time in 3D. After all, giant transforming robots from outer space are always fun, right?

I really should have known better.

Identity is a major theme in the new Indian film, I Am. Based on a number of anecdotes, this portmanteau film expresses the importance of upholding gender, political and sexual identity in an oft-unsympathetic society.  

Contrasting the respective experiences of seemingly disparate characters and their similar need for acceptance by loved ones and society, I Am tells of four separate stories, each dealing with a controversial issue in modern society.  

Release: 28^th April

Length: 95 minutes

Rating: PG

Release Date: April 7

Run Time: 124 minutes

Classification: M

Language: Russian, with English subtitles