2021-2030

Destruction in Ukraine war shown through lengthy tableaux. Soldiers’ phone calls to families reveal parallel world. Sound and image confront one another.Read More »

The Volcano Manifesto brings together three recent films—My Caldera (2022), Mines to Caves (2023), and The Deep West Assembly (2024)—in an astonishingly ambitious, densely woven meditation on geological and cinematic time.Read More »

Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus is a gift to biographical independent cinema and the women’s movement plus the cause for diversity and community. It’s truly a global music film on top of being a story of one person or many- her family, friends, her colleagues, the director plays a part- oh- It’s fresh in my mind but honestly it’s such a wild experience which spans the 20th and 21st centuries and there is so much music and pathos packed into it. I would simply say that each part or scene tells a unique story and then all fit together and form a sensible narrative that makes a compelling portrait of someone we just discovered.Read More »

Something bad happened to Agnes. But life goes on – for everyone around her, at least.Read More »

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Fresh out of a psychiatric hospital, Pia moves back in with her parents to get her life together. Torn between a new job, lovesickness, psychotropic drugs and social stigmatization, she emerges into a world where everything seems out of control.Read More »

Tel-Aviv 2020. A 2nd Covid lockdown is impending. After writing yet another article against prime minister Netanyahu, a journalist is flooded with hateful messages from right wing extremists. Meanwhile he tries in vain to get to his autistic son who lives in a hostel, while his daughter, who is at a protest turned violent, won’t answer the phone, sending him and his wife to Jerusalem to find her.Read More »

After the untimely death of his mother, a teenager befriends his charismatic but troubled next-door neighbor and becomes embroiled in a world of addiction and violence just as the opioid epidemic takes hold of their small town.Read More »

When a world champion of sport stacking is dumped by his long-time girlfriend, he has to learn basic adulting skills in order to live alone and take care of himself.Read More »

Refugee family in Sweden faces trauma after youngest daughter falls into unexplained coma when asylum denied. Parents struggle to find cure, resilience tested amid difficult circumstances.Read More »