Teaching audiences to view films actively
By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 5 cats
Director: Nicholas Colia
Starring: Abby Ryder Fortson | Alivia Bellamy | Everett Blunck | Melanie Lynskey | Owen Teague
Jessica says: “What. A. Delight. Coming in at a tight 90 minutes, this punchy coming of age comedy is FULL of heart. Such a great exploration of how art can help us explore the parts of ourselves we didn’t know
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Mstyslav Chernov
Laks says: “We got a timely Chlotrudis review of Alex Garland’s WARFARE which I kept in mind as I went in to see Mstyslav Chernov’s (20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL) 2000 METERS IN ANDRIIVKA. The film opens with a description of the
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Rating: 5 cats
Starring: Jessica Earnshaw
Diane says: “I am so glad I saw this movie. BABY DOE is a doc by Jessica Earnshaw about a grandmother who is on trial for leaving a newborn to die at the side of the road 25 years before.
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Ben Rivers
Laks says: “I was listening to Joyeeta & Debojyoti Sanyal’s Raag Malkauns on the peaceful journey home from the HFA tonight, having been reminded of my love for Indian classical music as Jake Williams played his excellent choices on dusty cassettes found in
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Tallulah Schwab
Starring: Bjørn Sundquist | Crispin Glover | Dearbhla Molloy | Fionnula Flanagan | Sunnyi Melles
Brett says: “Finally, a movie for those of us trapped in our own respective minds! But wait, surely there have been others featuring this concept, right? Did I just make a fool of myself? How do I get out of
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Pascal Plante
Starring: Elisabeth Locas | Juliette Gariépy | Laurie Babin | Maxwell McCabe-Lokos | Natalie Tannous
Julie says: “RED ROOMS, while on it’s face appears to be a who dunnit thriller, delves deeply into one woman’s obsession with solving a high profile murder case. Edge of your seat tensions run though out this film, with the
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Gabrielle Brady
Brett says: “In THE WOLVES ALWAYS COME AT NIGHT, Director Gabrielle Brady offers a documentary-fiction hybrid that is sure to appeal to fans of the unique genre. The subjects are members of a family of herders in rural Mongolia who
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Levan Akin
Starring: Deniz Dumanli | Levan Bochorishvili | Lucas Kankava | Mzia Arabuli | Nino Karchava
Michael says: “As a follow-up to his beautiful film, AND THEN WE DANCED, Levan Akin creates another powerful, humanistic drama in CROSSING. Again focusing on the Georgian community, this time Akin follows his cast to Istanbul and a retired teacher looking
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Rating: 5 cats
Director: Kleber Mendonça Filho
Chris says: “Sifting through and reminiscing about one’s own past is easy; contextualizing these memories and enabling them to resonate with an audience is trickier, as one has likely experienced in many an autobiographical narrative or essay film (Chris Marker
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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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