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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Michael Gracey
Philip says: “You get from the film how much of a hard worker and how focused Pink is. She takes the role of Mom just as seriously as she has taken her career as a singer songwriter. The doc turns
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Director: Nicholas Bruckman
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Stanley Nelson | Traci Curry
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Matthew Heineman
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.7 cats
Director: Jonas Poher Rasmussen
Diane says: “FLEE is a 2021 animated doc about a refugee’s extended nightmare. Director Jonas Poher Rasmussen comes out of radio documentaries, and this project began as audio interviews. Rasmussen chose animation when he and his subject, a close friend
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Director: Robert Greene
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2.5 cats
Director: Gitta Gsell
Starring: Beren Tuna | Burak Ates | Dimitri Stapfer | Ecem Aydin | Müjdat Albak | Serkan Tastemur | Zeki Bulgurcu
Michael says: “BEYTO makes a worthy attempt at exploring the challenges and complexities of a gay immigrant from a conservative, homophobic culture. Beyto is a handsome and talented swimmer whose life seems charmed, with supportive parents who own a bakery.
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Director: Amp Wong
Starring: Feodor Chin | Stephanie Wong | Xiaoxi Tang | Zhang Fuzheng | Zhongyang Baomu
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Frédéric Ralière | Xavier Fournier
Michael says: “Anyone who knows me, knows that this documentary, that follows the evolution of the female superhero characters in comics from the 1940s up to today, is made for me. As a self-avowed super-heroine advocate, i rejoice in an
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Director: Paul Verhoeven
Starring: Charlotte Rampling | Daphne Patakia | Hervé Pierre | Lambert Wilson | Louise Chevillotte | Olivier Rabourdin | Virginie Efira
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Bettina Oberli
Starring: Agnieszka Grochowska | Anatole Taubman | André Jung | Birgit Minichmayr | Jacob Matschenz | Marthe Keller
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Zaida Bergroth
Starring: Alma Pöysti | Jakob Öhrman | Joanna Haartti | Kajsa Ernst | Krista Kosonen | Robert Enckel | Shanti Roney
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Bruce La Bruce
Starring: Alexandra Petrachuk | Andreas Apergis | Angèle Coutu | Félix-Antoine Duval | Marcello Arroyo | Mimi Côté | Tania Kontoyanni
Michael says: “Never one to play it safe, writer/director Bruce La Bruce (GERONTOPHILLIA; OTTO; OR, UP WITH DEAD PEOPLE; HUSTLER WHITE) pokes at heteronormative judgement, and homosexual narcissism in a classic b-movie disguised as an art-house indie. Dominic is a beautiful young
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Director: Rex Miller | Sam Pollard
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Starring: Hyunri | Issey Takahashi | Masahiro Higashide | Minosuke | Ryôta Bandô | Takashi Sasano | Yû Aoi | Yuri Tsunematsu
Chris says: “Historical melodrama that takes a while to get where it’s going, although it eventually arrives (e.g. the stowaway sequence) and then unpredictably goes a little batshit after that. Docked at least half a star for how clumsily it
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Director: Jake Scott
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Jessica Beshir
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Amanda Lipitz
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Henry Loevner | Steven Kanter
Starring: Ali Vingiano | Ben Coleman | Derrick Joseph DeBlasis | Gadiel Del Orbe | Henry Loevner | Kate Peterman
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Valerie Weiss
Starring: Anthony Timpano | Audrey Hsieh | Diego Mercado | Gemma Brooke Allen | Julie Bowen | Nick Thune | Olga Petsa
