Maria (2020)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Ben Rekhi
Starring: Alessandra de Rossi | Arthur Acuña | Jake Macapagal
American Street Kid (2020)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Michael Leoni
The Burnt Orange Heresy (2020)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Giuseppe Capotondi
Starring: Claes Bang | Donald Sutherland | Elizabeth Debicki | Mick Jagger
Tesla (2020)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Michael Almereyda
Starring: Eli A. Smith | Ethan Hawke | Eve Hewson | Josh Hamilton | Kyle McLachlan
Chris says: “For Michael Almereyda, a more successful stab at an iconoclastic scientist biopic than EXPERIMENTER; for Ethan Hawke, a truly strange and insular though not unsuccessful performance. I would’ve liked this even more if the whole thing was as
Read the review...Peninsula (2020)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Sang-ho Yeon
Starring: Dong-Won Gang | Hae-hyo Kwon | Jung-hyun Lee | Re Lee
The 24th (2020)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Kevin Willmott
Starring: Aja Naomi King | Bashir Salahuddin | Mo McRae | Trai Byers
The Vanished (2020)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Peter Facinelli
Starring: Alex Haydon | Anne Heche | Jason Patric | Thomas Jane
Enter the Forbidden City (2020)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Mei Hu
Starring: Dalong Fu | Jinghan Ma | Yili Ma | Ziwen Wang
Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story (2020)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Kimo Easterwood | Ron Cicero
Sputnik (2020)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Egor Abramenko
Starring: Anton Va | Fedor Bondarchuk | Oksana Akinshina | Pyotr Fyodorov
Technotise: Edit & I (2010)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Aleksa Gajic | Nebojsa Andric | Stevan Djordjevic
Starring: Jelisaveta 'Seka' Sablic | Nebojsa Glogovac | Petar Kralj | Sanda Knezevic
Jason says: “Early on in TECHNOTISE: EDIT & I, the Edit of the title offhandedly mentions that one of her pet robots is named ‘Otomo’, a reference that is apt for all that it is obvious: Like the famed Japanese
Read the review...Gallants (2010)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Chi-Kin Kwok | Clement Sze-Kit Cheng
Starring: Kuan Tai Chen | Siu-Lung Leung | Teddy Robin Kwan | You-Nam Wong
Jason says: “According to the director, GALLANTS took about ten years to get financing, so one has to wonder – if it had been made then, would it have been giving late-career tributes to different old-school actors, or would Bruce
Read the review...Stage Mother (2020)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.5 cats
Director: Thom Fitzgerals
Starring: Adrian Grenier | Jacki Weaver | Lucy Liu | Mya Taylor
Michael says: “Director Thom Fitzgerald was part of the cavalcade of talent present at our 10th Awards Ceremony, way back in 2004 with his debut film, HANGING GARDEN, taking the special Vanguard Award. His latest film, STAGE MOTHER, has got
Read the review...Black Bear (2020)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Lawrence Michael Levine
Starring: Aubrey Plaza | Christopher Abbott | Sarah Gadon
Michael says: “When I perused the listings for this year’s festival, BLACK BEAR jumped out immediately because of lead actor, and two time Chlotrudis nominee, Aubrey Plaza. In fact, I had the privilege of presenting Aubrey with PIFF’s first ever
Read the review...Identifying Features (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Fernanda Valadez
Starring: David Illescas | Juan Jesús Varela | Mercedes Hernández
Michael says: “This Mexican feature is a slow burn as a mother travels from her tiny village in Guanajuato to the Mexican/US border to find out what happened to her son. Along the way she encounter resistance, danger and mounting
Read the review...Coded Bias (2020)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Shalini Kantayya
Michael says: “This film couldn’t have been released at a better time as it explores the problematic uses and misuses of facial recognition, applied algorithms, artificial intelligence, and bias. But best of all it introduced me to Joy Buolamwini, a
Read the review...Fish & Men (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Adam Jones | Darby Duffin
Michael says: “Filmmakers do a great job weaving multiple narratives into a cohesive story about the fishing industry from ocean to plate. From Gloucester, MA to Norway, Japan, Montauk NY, Washington DC, Wellfleet, and Los Angeles, this film manages to
Read the review...Two of Us (2021)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Filippo Meneghetti
Starring: Barbara Sukowa | Jérôme Varanfrain | Léa Drucker | Martine Chevallier
Michael says: “Two older, retired women who have been romantically involved for the past twenty years live in neighboring apartments. They plan to move to Italy to live out the remainder of their lives together now that Madeleine has become
Read the review...Endless (2020)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Scott Speer
Starring: Alexandra Shipp | DeRon Horton | Ian Tracey | Nicholas Hamilton
Spree (2020)
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Eugene Kotlyarenko
Starring: David Arquette | Joe Keery | Kyle Mooney | Sasheer Zamata
