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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Hanaël El Yousfi
Starring: Ava Baya | Bilel Chegrani | Gabrielle Cohen | Lior Aidan | Younes Bouab
Beth Cu says: “Set in Marseille, about 2 girlfriends, one Muslim one Jewish, and them trying to navigate/mitigate the religious/cultural/gender restraints their families put on them. The main lead, Myriam, was stunning, in looks and acting – her partner not
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Irene Dionisio
Starring: Giuseppe De Domenico | Romana Maggiora Vergano | Tecla Insolia
Beth Cu says: ” Italian film, focused on two young women, oldtime friends, reunited for a climb up Mt Etna. the volcano is very much the 3rd character – lots of atmospheric, longshot & and stock footage of it throughout.
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Ferit Karahan
Starring: Demet Özdemir | Helin Kandemir | Ilhan Sen | Kaan Yildirim | Sarp Bozkurt
Michael says: “Ferit Karahan’s sixth feature film, DJINN WEDDING, is a sweeping, angry tale about a family cursed after moving into a house that was taken from the previous owners. Told in three chapters, the first focuses on the family when
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Ione Hernández
Starring: Aritz Kortabarria | Carlota Keiko | Elena Anaya | Emma Suárez | León Martínez
Michael says: “Spanish films SISTERS (HERMANAS), written and directed by Ione Hernández, was a competently-made film with a screenplay that lacked the needed emotional impact to make it really succeed. Two sisters, Chelo and Marta, bring their families together to
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Kamila Andini
Starring: Arya Saloka | Christine Hakim | Hana Malsn | Hargi Sundari | Iswadi Pratama | Putri Marino
Michael says: “Both bold, and retro, with a modern twist, writer/director Kamila Andini takes a classic western revenge tale and modernizes it from a feminist point of view and tosses in a dash of mysticism and otherworldliness. Led by a
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Kris Rey
Starring: Caleb Hearon | Holmes | Jaboukie Young-White | Jacki Weaver | Zooey Deschanel
Michael says: “My biggest disappointment so far, TRASH MOUNTAIN was a good movie, but I was hoping for something great. When Gavin’s father dies, he must leave his queer community in Chicago to return to rural Missouri to help his
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Arild Fröhlich
Starring: Jenny Skavlan | Josefin Ljungman | Kyrre Hellum | Nils Jørgen Kaalstad | Per Kjerstad
Jason says: “Norway’s FATSO goes for the comedy of discomfort far more than an American version of the same story would, and as a result, maybe it makes sense in that case that it ends with only the wispiest sense
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Amira Casar | António Maria | Ayden Mayeri | José Condessa | Lilian T. Mehrel | Teresa Faria
Michael says: “Nice story, with good performances falls a little short with a screenplay that is a little stiff. June and her mother Lela, take a trip to the Azores in Portugal a year after their father/husband has died. It
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: John Dorr | Mike Kaplan
Michael says: “A serviceable documentary about the filming of Robert Altman’s SHORT CUTS. Kaplan was a successful producer who worked with both Altman and Rudolph, as well as Kubrick. This doc features some fun and interesting interview with the cast,
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Starring: Daigo Yamamoto | Haruka Ayase | Kan'ichirô Satô | Nanan Seino | Rimu Kuwaki
Chris says: “Hirokazu Kore-eda’s gentle sci-fi/AI fable is perhaps the highest concept he’s forged since AFTER LIFE but he doesn’t do enough with it, utilizing it as a catalyst for a family drama without fully realizing its potential. If the
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