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By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Sofia Alaoui
Starring: Fouad Oughaou | Mehdi Dehbi | Oumaima Barid | Rajaa Essaaidi | Souad Khouyi
Laks says: “Science fiction about extraterrestrial encounters often feel exclusively produced within US and UK cinema. A foray into the genre from a Moroccan writer and director immediately got my attention. The film opens within a opulent palatial mansion as it
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hao Wu | Miao Wang
Michael says: “I learned a lot in this very even-handed, information packed doc about the Supreme Court case to overturn Affirmative Action and the subtleties and conflicting belief around discrimination, particularly around Asian-Americans admissions at Harvard University. There were times
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Jane Schoenbrun
Starring: Brigette Lundy-Paine | Helena Howard | Ian Foreman | Justice Smith | Lindsey Jordan
Michael says: “After making a splash with their debut film, WE ARE ALL GOING TO THE WORLD’S FAIR, writer/director Jane Schoenbrun follows-up with a creative, thought-provoking, and devastating examination of the struggle between our outer and inner selves through the
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Cody Lightning
Starring: Adam Beach | Cody Lightning | Conway Kootenay | Hannah Cheesman | Simon Baker
Michael says: “Fans of the 1998 Canadian film, SMOKE SIGNALS, will most appreciate this raunchy, irreverent, mockumentary about one minor cast member’s attempt to mount a sequel. Cody Lightning was a young boy when he portrayed Young Victor Joseph, a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Trevor Anderson
Starring: Dominic Lippa | Lacey Oake | Matthew Rankin | Shannon Blanchet | Vaughan Murrae
Jeff says: “It’s 1987, and Robin (Vaughan Murrae) is the new kid, an American recently settled into their new home in Edmonton, Alberta. It’s their first day of high school, and they join a gym class in progress, where a
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Molly Manning Walker
Starring: Anna Antoniades | Eleni Sachini | Enva Lewis | Lara Peake | Mia McKenna-Bruce
Brett says: “HOW TO HAVE SEX goes full throttle in providing what could be described as a neo-naturalist depiction, centered on the trendy Spring Break or summer vacation phenomena among post-high school graduates eager to leap into the benefits of adulthood
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Errol Morris
Chris says: “Errol Morris films live and die by how engaging the interrogated subject is, and mystery writer/ex-spy John le Carré/David Cornwell is entertaining in an unassuming Gore Vidal sort of way. However, in a new twist, Morris also lets
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Hong Sang-soo
Starring: Kim Min-hee | Lee Hye-yeong | Mi-So Park | Seo Younghwa | Yunhee Cho
Diane says: “A short but meaty film by Hong Sang-soo: in a suburb of Seoul, a novelist—whose best books may be behind her—visits an old colleague who has given up writing, and serendipitously encounters a filmmaker who’s happy to have
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Paul B. Preciado
Chris says: “With this unconventional documentary, transgender writer/philosopher/feminist Paul B. Preciado doesn’t so much take Virginia Woolf’s Orlando back from the 1992 Sally Potter film starring Tilda Swinton in the title role as he comprehensively shows how her story about
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Rating: 4 cats
Director: Caolina Marcowicz
Starring: Erom Cordeiro | Isac Graça | Kauan Alvarenga | Maeve Jinkings | Thomas Aquino
Brett says: “Director Carolina Markowicz follows 2022’s genre-bending plot from CHARCOAL with yet another single-word title film. Similar to that first feature, this film allows audiences to interpret the ominous title to apply to quite a few different plot circumstances. The
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