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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Elizabeth Lo
Michael says: “Returning to Istanbul, STRAY looks at the street dogs that make up much of the character of the city. Like KEDI, which looked at street cats in Istanbul, STRAY gives us a decidedly canine viewpoint, in fact goes
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Anna Sofie Hartmann
Starring: Camilla Lau | Christopher Bach | Henning Valin Jakobsen | Jakub Gierszal | Lisa Loven Kongsli | Maren Eggert
Michael says: “GIRAFFE is an interesting film, one that uses elements of fiction and documentary to explore our fragile sense of identity and place. Dara is an historian who is working on an oral history project on a Danish Island
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Steve McQueen
Starring: Asad-Shareef Muhammad | Ashley McGuire | Elliot Edusah | Fumilayo Brown-Olateju | Jonathan Jules | Robbie Gee | Sheyi Cole
Part of the Small Axe Amazon Prime series Michael says: “Sadly, the penultimate film in McQueen’s quintet is the nadir for me. Perhaps having watched all five in fairly close succession, I was just feeling a little burned out on the
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Zeina Durra
Starring: Ahmed Talaat | Andrea Riseborough | Indigo Rønlov | Janie Aziz | Karim Saleh | Michael Landes | Shirin Redha | Trude Reed
Michael says: “A woman who served as a medical officer at the war zone on the Jordan/Syrian border takes a much needed leave visiting Egypt where she worked on an archaeological dig two decades ago. There she is swept back
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Arab Nasser | Tarzan Nasser
Starring: Hiam Abbass | Ibrahim Altoubat | Maisa Abd Elhadi | Namil Alraee
Chris says: “Ostensibly a romance between Issa (Salim Dau), a lifelong bachelor who announces, ‘I’ve decided to get married’ and Siham (Hiam Abbass), a seamstress with an adult daughter, this plays out with a slight surreal twinge, almost like a
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Wayne Wang
Starring: Christina July Kim | Jackie Chung | John Lie | Justin Chon
Michael says: “This gentle film about losing a parent was based on an autobiographical ‘New Yorker’ essay written by Chang-Rae Lee, who then co-wrote the screenplay with director Wayne Wang, best known for his adaptation of Amy Tan’s THE JOY LUCK
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Pedro Costa
Starring: Manuel Tavares Almeida | Ventura | Vitalina Varela
Chris says: “On the basis of this (I haven’t seen his other work), Pedro Costa makes slow cinema like Tsai Ming-liang, only without his playfulness or, in fact, any trace of humor. This is not a negative critique, for this
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Nathan Grossman
Starring: António Guterres | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Greta Thunberg
Chris says: “It’s one thing to think of Greta Thunberg as a sound bite or a headline—the outspoken, determined, teenaged Swedish climate change activist; this doc presents her as something more by recording her journey from lone striker sitting on
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Cathy Brady
Starring: Kate Dickie | Martin McCann | Nora-Jane Noone
Chris says: “Kelly (Nika McGuigan) returns home to her Northern Ireland border town after running away the year before, to both the relief and consternation of her family, including her close sister Lauren (Nora-Jane Boone). What Kelly ran away from
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Rating: 3 cats
Director: Don Roos
Starring: Anthony Rapp | Debra Monk | Lauren Ambrose | Lisa Kudrow | Natalie Portman | Scott Cohen
Thom says: “This film was adapted from the novel Love and Other Impossible Pursuits by Ayelet Waldman. This didn’t really win me over but perhaps it was a matter of relating to it. Emilia Greenleaf (Portman) a young lawyer sets
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