2010s

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As the shadow of night falls across the American West a lone man begins his work. Far from the confines, calamity, and culture of society, multimedia artist and storyteller Jeff Frost sifts through the visual dregs of places and people who once were.

Combining still and time-lapse photography with motion, music, and art, Frost reveals a world rarely seen. Rooted in science and the exploration of space, Frost’s work explodes with light, fire, and sound, utilizing 2D and 3D perspective, leading the viewer on a unique visual journey through worlds both real and imagined.Read More »

Georgia’s Oscar submission tells a harrowing true story taken from the Russo-Georgian War of 2008.

Shindisi is the name of the sleepy village where director Dito Tsintsadze’s passionately told tale of soldiers and civilians is set, a story made all the more poignant because it is taken from a real-life incident from the brief Russo-Georgian War of August 2008. For those turned off by war films, this is not your typical macho fantasy, though there is a long and well-filmed sequence of shooting, shelling, torching and grenades. But the pic’s real focus is on the compassion and bravery of the villagers who risked their lives to rescue wounded Georgian troops.Read More »

An unpredictable documentary from a fascinating storyteller, Agnès Varda’s next film sheds light on her experience as a director, bringing a personal insight to what she calls “cine-writing,” traveling from Rue Daguerre in Paris to Los Angeles and Beijing.Read More »

“Emotionally and artistically, this is a definite highlight of the competition…” ~TiFF Romania

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Lara doesn’t know what she wants. At twenty-five, she’s about to finish her degree in architecture, but it doesn’t interest her anymore. She spends her nights going out late with her friend Nora, but hasn’t enjoyed that for a while either. She wants to change her life, but she doesn’t know how. After a wild night out dancing, Lara finds herself pregnant. Confused and hesitant at first, she throws herself into the adventure: becoming a mother. But the experience takes a painful turn. Lara miscarries in her sixth month. Fearing the loss of her newfound feeling of purpose, Lara continues to carry the baby and acts as if she is still pregnant…Read More »

How African Americans created the upbeat musical form that started out as gospel quartet music and became rock and roll.Read More »

The second “visual album” by Beyoncé, this time around she takes a piercing look at racial issues and feminist concepts through a sexualized, satirical, and solemn tone.Read More »

The lives of two sisters change dramatically after they have been hypnotized by a mystical vinyl record from the 1970’s. Intriguing horror film about a pair of sisters who discover a supernatural vinyl record whose self-help mumbo jumbo unearths dopplegangers wanting to break on thru to the other side. Filmmaker Adrian Garcia Bogliano taps into many sub genres: Cronenbergian body horror; Lynch doubles; Craven dreamscapes; ‘RING’ like overtones (audio instead of video), ‘Invasion of the Body Snatchers’ viscera and even echoes of giallo. It plays like a greatest hits of modern-day terror.Read More »

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“Fade Into Nothing” brings together the musician Paulo Furtado / The Legendary Tigerman, the photographer Rita Lino and the filmmaker Pedro Maia on a road trip through the Californian desert. A road-movie in a format of a false diary shoot in Super 8, with texts from Paulo Furtado, music from The Legendary Tigerman and photography by Rita Lino. The joining of three visions on a man’s voyage that, more than just disappear, he aims to be nothing, to become nothing.Read More »

Synopsis : Somewhere in Manila, a crime boss rules with an iron fist. He uses religion and violence to stay in power. What superstition and razzle dazzle don’t accomplish, his goons do. To his most loyal henchman he gives the task of guarding his woman, who is headstrong and impulsive, and often gets into trouble. Before long, she falls in love with the henchman, and the star-crossed lovers decide to leave town. Fighting ensues. It is while on the run that they finally get to know each other for the first time…Read More »