In the Shadow of the Cypress: An All-Around Triumph
At Berlinale, Ethan Hawke called all artistic effort a compassion engine. He must have had Hossein Molayemi and Shirin Sohani’s ...
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Anywhere the Wind Blows: Carrying On, Or Ways to Honour What Was Lost
Jay Liu’s Anywhere the Wind Blows overlaps the political with the personal to illustrate that, yes, the personal is as ...
The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent: A Stunningly Astute Massacre Drama
In truth, Nebojsa Slijepcevic’s The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent (Croatian: Covjek koji nije mogao sutjeti) is—and to great ...
A Lien: Shattering Drama on US immigration and the Home that is No More
Sam and David Cutler-Kreutz’s nimbly titled A Lien lets itself be cut up to pieces by the narrative of a ...
Anuja: Poverty, Family, and a Girl Just Starting to Come of Age
The cast of Adam J. Graves’ Anuja carries the film. The story of a Delhi factory worker girl negotiating with ...
1 Degré de Séparation: Big Family Drama and A Wedding
5pm Productions’ first short film 1 Degré de Séparation (directed by Sonia Rossier) is a drama that at least half ...
Meng Hua Lu: A Short of Experiments in Imagery, Noise, and Silence
Ty Brueilly’s 2018 Meng Hua Lu is a silent black-and-white short that plays with the line dividing narrative and non-narrative ...
Hope Ryder: New Misadventures in Making This the Best of All Possible Worlds
Matt Gorman’s sci-fi drama Hope Ryder follows its titular character through a life-altering series of events at the centre of ...
The Takeover: Two Wrongs, (Second Amendment) Rights, and a few Stages of Grief
Adrian Jules’ The Takeover pits one kind of villainy against another, and beneath this canopy devises a 13-minute psychological torture ...
More Than A Test: Children Speak Up as Adults in Healthcare Docu
Shelby Maya Smith’s More Than A Test (The Rise of the Unsilenced Movement) is a documentary on the life altering ...
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