Triptych Drama ‘D’ici là’ Is a Finely Judged Collection of Stories
Sarah Leonor’s triptych drama D’ici la is an exercise in humility, emphasizing nature’s sensuality beneath the weight of the human footprint.
Film Festivals
‘Hunger’ Summons the Ghosts of Cinema’s Past
Imanol Ortiz López’s 2D animated short film, Hunger is a captivating tale of horror about two parents who decide what to do about their crying baby.
The Terrible Force of Kim Nguyen’s ‘Saigon Story’
Kim Nguyen’s Saigon Story revisits Eddie Adams’ iconic execution photograph and follows the families still living with what the Vietnam War (aka the American War) – and that image – exposed.
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Johan Nayar’s Malawian Musical Odyssey with ‘The Banjo Boys’
From The Banjo Boys beginnings as a “mini-doc” to its fruition as a feature film, Johan and Neil Nayar join musicians Yobu Maligwa and Yosefe Kalekeni on their journey from simple craft to sensational art.
‘The Red Hangar’ Warns of Criminal Obedience Amidst Rising Fascism
In The Red Hangar, the first day of Chile’s 1973 coup becomes a tightening moral trap, as an Air Force captain watches military routine turn into open repression.
‘Amrum’ Presents Wartime Distress with Visual Grace
Fatih Akin’s visually beautiful wartime drama, Amrum, turns a child’s survival into a memory handed from one talented filmmaker to another.
Sound of Falling’s Slow Exhaustion of Memory
In Mascha Schilinski’s moody psychological drama Sound of Falling, we sense that a place can outlast the lives shaped inside it: what happened there does not disappear.
One World Film Festival Refuses to Make Human Rights Easy
One World Human Rights Film Festival’s political force is in its willingness to remain in contradiction, where justice can arrive too late and survival can depend on fragile acts of self-invention.
‘The Sandbox’ Only Touches the Surface of Surveillance
Without digging too deeply into the subject, as it warrants, The Sandbox contends that border zones are experimental grounds for hi-tech surveillance of vulnerable people.
‘A Fox Under a Pink Moon’ Shows a Primal Method for Survival
In one of A Fox Under a Pink Moon’s sharpest insights, imagination is one of the few available means of surviving a crisis.
‘Josephine’ Crawls Under Your Skin and Stays
With crime drama Josephine, Beth de Araújo has crafted a film that first and foremost doesn’t need to be reckoned with so much as sat with.
‘The Huntress’ Tracks the Desire for Vengeance
The Huntress casts aside simplified ideas about revenge and observes different ways to respond to a culture of misogynistic violence.