Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.7 cats
Director: Jeremy Workman
Brett says: “The title of the documentary SECRET MALL APARTMENT might appear to tell a person everything one needs to know, as four creative adults find an anomaly in the architecture of a local Providence mega-mall in the early 2000s
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Daina Oniunas-Pusic
Starring: Arinzé Kene | Ellie James | Julia Louis-Dreyfus | Leah Harvey | Lola Petticrew
Val says: “The anthropomorphizing of death is not a new storytelling concept. But Daina Oniunas-Pusic’s story isn’t called ‘Death,’ it’s called ‘TUESDAY and in this film the talking death-parrot is a foil to her. It felt like a new take
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Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Annie Baker
Starring: Elias Koteas | Julianne Nicholson | Sophie Okonedo | Will Patton | Zoe Ziegler
Michael says: “Award-winning playwright Annie Baker makes the transition from theater to film and manages to bring with her the moments that make her plays so memorable, while utilizing the language of film to maximum effect. During the summer before
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Rating: 4.2 cats
Director: India Donaldson
Starring: Danny McCarthy | James Le Gros | Lily Collias | Peter McNally | Sumaya Bouhbal
Michael says: “We first meet Sam, hanging with her best friend, Jessie the night before she will head off on a weekend camping trip with her dad, her dad’s longtime buddy and his teenaged son. When her counterpart teen traveler
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Director: Devang Bhavsar
Starring: Jisshu Sengupta | Karan Sonawane | Mouni Roy | Sunil Grover | Vikrant Massey
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Marco Perego
Starring: Adria Arjona | Garrett Hedlund | Morningstar Angeline | Tom Waits | Zoe Saldana
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Andy Brown | Brian Lindstrom
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Lije Sarki
Starring: Bobby Lee | Brian Van Holt | Jay Mohr | Johnny Knoxville | Kate Upton
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Zarrar Kahn
Starring: Adnan Shah | Bakhtawar Mazhar | Mohammad Ali Hashmi | Omar Javaid | Ramesha Nawal
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Dillon Tucker
Starring: Casey Vandeventer | Daniel Dorr | Hope Lauren | Jeffery A. Baker | Landry Bender
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Louise Archambault
Starring: Andrzej Seweryn | Dougray Scott | Eliza Rycembel | Maciej Nawrocki | Sophie Nélisse
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Kyle Portbury
Starring: Bill Lake | Gregory Wilson | Maddy Martin | Timothy Paul Coderre | Tommie-Amber Pirie
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Kumar Raj
Starring: Anant Mahadevan | Kishan Kumar Pawar | Kumar Raj | Rekha Rana | Utkarsh Kohli
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Caye Casas
Starring: Claudia Riera | David Pareja | Estefanía de los Santos | Itziar Castro | Josep Maria Riera | La mesita del comedor
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Jeremy Warner
Starring: Billy Mann | Colin Mochrie | Jason Gray | Jeff Bryan Davis | Mallory Everton
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Daishi Matsunaga
Starring: Durian Lollobrigida | Hio Miyazawa | Iori Wada | Ryohei Suzuki | Yûko Nakamura
Michael says: “I’m always happy when PIFF keeps the ‘I’ for international in mind during programming. This powerful Japanese film, EGOIST, turned out to be one of my top films of the festival, and one that I felt confident in recommending
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Director: Chris Newhard | Max Lugavere
Starring: Ana Kasparian | Ben Lugavere | Bruce Lugavere | Kathy Lugavere | Max Lugavere
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Laurent Nègre
Starring: Cléa Eden | Manuela Biedermann | Michael Neuenschwander | Peter Wyssbrod | Yann Philipona
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Kiah Roache-Turner
Starring: Alyla Browne | Jermaine Fowler | Noni Hazlehurst | Robyn Nevin | Ryan Corr
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Baloji
Starring: Eliane Umuhire | Lucie Debay | Marc Zinga | Marcel Otete Kabeya | Yves-Marina Gnahoua
