Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Chris McKim
Michael says: “Queer 80’s artist David Wojnarowicz was a contemporary of Robert Mapplethorpe and Keith Haring, but with a decidedly different outlook and more in-your-face attitude. Documentaries about art are not really my thing, much to the disappointment for some
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Valentyn Vasyanovych
Starring: Andriy Rymaruk | Lily Hyde | Liudmyla Bileka | Vasyl Antoniak
Michael says: “ATLANTIS is the Ukraine’s 2021 entry to the Oscars. A simple, straight-forward story that tells a grim tale set four years in the future with glimmer of hope in the form of love. While efforts are underway to
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Melina León
Starring: Lucio Rojas | Maykol Hernández | Pamela Mendoza | Ruth Armas | Tommy Párraga
Beth C. said: “SONG WITHOUT A NAME, by Melina León is a Spanish language film from Peru about an indigenous Andean woman whose baby is stolen at birth via an underground trafficking ring. The story is based on real events,
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Mina Mileva | Vesela Kazakova
Starring: Angel Genov | Chinwe Nwokolo | Gilda Waugh | Irina Atanasova | Jon-Jo Inkpen | Kadisha Gee Kamara | Orlin Asenov
Bob says: “A look at immigrant life in a gentrifying area of London, with Brexit hanging over everything. A Bulgarian woman, her brother (both well educated) and her son are eking out a life in a former council flat in Peckham.
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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
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Eliza Hittman
Starring: David Buneta | Eliazar Jimenez | Sam Dugger | Sharon van Etten | Sidney Flanagan | Talia Ryder | Theodore Pellerin
Michael says: “Autumn is a 17-year-old girl who’s most likely considered an outsider may her peers, has a fractious relationship with her stepfather, and escapes into her songwriting and guitar-playing as possibly her only solace. She works as a grocery
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Levan Akin
Starring: Ana Javakishvili | Bachi Valishvili | Kakha Gogidze | Levan Gelbakhiani
Michael says: “Wow. This one took me by surprise, and I really loved it. A coming-of-age story about a young man growing up in a traditional, conservative town in Georgia (the country). Our lead, Merab, is a good son living
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Ljubomir Stefanov | Tamara Kotevska
Michael says: “HONEYLAND was a remarkable documentary; I think it was my top film of the festival. Remarkably shot, incredibly edits, a real gem of a story that was somehow gifted to the filmmaker, HONEYLAND also illuminates a culture I
Read the review...By Chris Kriofske
Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Chang-dong Lee
Starring: Ah-in Yoo | Jong-seo Jun | Seong-kun Mun | Seung-ho Choi | Soo-Kyung Kim | Steven Yeun
Brett says: “This piece is a sort of ‘Hitchcock re-imagined’ film that slowly burns away at the viewer’s sensitivities and perceptions. At the center of the film is a hint of a love triangle among a part-time delivery boy Jong-su, an
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Rating: 4.75 cats
Director: Jafar Panahi
Starring: Jafar Panahi
Bruce says: “So cleverly crafted is Jafar Panahi’s TAXI that it could easily be mistaken for a documentary. Winner of the 2015 Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival, TAXI is another creative response from Panahi (THIS IS NOT A
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