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Films

A Gaza Weekend (2025)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Basil Khalil
Starring: Adam Bakri | Julian Chagrin | Loai Nofi | Mouna Hawa | Sameera Asir | Stephen Mangan

A Gaza Weekend
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The Disappearance of Shere Hite (2023)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Nicole Newnham

The Disappearance of Shere Hite
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Incredible But True (2023)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Quentin Dupieux
Starring: Alain Chabat | Anaïs Demoustier | Benoît Magimel | Léa Drucker | Stéphane Pezerat

Incredible But True
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Blue Giant (2023)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Director: Yuzuru Tachikawa
Starring: Amane Okayama | Shôtarô Mamiya | Yuki Yamada

Blue Giant
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We Grown Now (2024)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Minhal Baig
Starring: Avery Holliday | Blake Cameron James | David Folsom | Giovani Chambers | Lil Rel Howery

We Grown Now

Chris says: “Set in a re-creation of the now-demolished high rise towers of the notorious Chicago housing project Cabrini-Green in 1992, Minhal Baig’s film focuses on two 12-year-old boys living there: Malik (Blake Cameron James) and Eric (Gian Knight Ramirez).

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The Beast (2024)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3.75 cats
Director: Bertrand Bonello
Starring: Dasha Nekrasova | George MacKay | Guslagie Malanda | Léa Seydoux | Martin Scall

The Beast

Chris says: “In past films like SAINT LAURENT and NOCTURAMA, I’ve admired director Bertrand Bonello’s approach and elements of his heightened style without finding them complete or entirely convincing. His latest gets closer than ever to feeling whole but that’s

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How to Have Sex (2024)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: Molly Manning Walker
Starring: Anna Antoniades | Eleni Sachini | Enva Lewis | Lara Peake | Mia McKenna-Bruce

How to Have Sex

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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Seven Veils (2024)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 2 cats
Director: Atom Egoyan
Starring: Amanda Seyfried | Douglas Smith | Maia Jae Bastidas | Mark O'Brien | Rebecca Liddiard

Seven Veils

Michael says: “Atom Egoyan’s first dozen or so films were all fascinating, compelling works that solidified him as one of those filmmakers whose work I will always see. His last four or five have been more erratic, or worse, sometimes

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Walls (2024)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 3 cats
Director: Kasia Smutniak

Walls

Diane says: “Katia Smutniak, an award-winning Polish-Italian actor, said at the TIFF Q&A that her documentary was ‘not made out of a desire to make a movie.’ Compelled by the situation of migrants trying to enter Poland through the country’s

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Evil Does Not Exist (2024)

By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4.5 cats
Director: Ryûsuke Hamaguchi
Starring: Ayaka Shibutani | Hazuki Kikuchi | Hitoshi Omika | Ryô Nishikawa | Ryûji Kosaka

Evil Does Not Exist

Chris says: “So, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, what are you doing now after all that acclaim (including the Palme D’or and an Oscar) for DRIVE MY CAR? A study of an environmental threat towards a remote community whren a corporation wants to

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