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The boundary-breaking composer and performer Meredith Monk overcame a hostile critical establishment to become one of the great innovators of her generation. Now, Monk faces mortality: can such singular work be performed without her?Read More »
Aware that the future does not hold many options for her in a riverside community on Marajó Island, 13-year-old Marcielle decides to confront the violent machinery that governs her family and the women in her community.Read More »
Nina, a tempestuous young woman joins a group of hunters in a remote cabin. A mysterious stranger’s arrival disrupts her newfound place in their male micro-society.Read More »
Purusha Pretham, Krishand’s third feature, is a police procedural story that has never been seen before in Malayalam cinema; an investigative thriller with interesting twists and turns.Read More »
Three women in a Marseille apartment gets stuck in a heat wave. They find themselves trapped in a terrifying affair and longing for freedom.Read More »
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Angela’s deafness raises concerns during her pregnancy regarding connecting with her daughter. Post-delivery, partner Héctor supports her as she learns to mother in a society lacking adequate accommodations for the hearing-impaired.Read More »
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 »