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11 Flowers

Directed by Wang Xiaoshuai Produced by Xiaoshuai, Isabelle Glachant, Didar Domehri, Lü Dong, Laurent Baudens & Gaël Nouaille Written by Xiaoshuai & Lao Ni Released by First Run Features Shanghainese & Mandarin with English subtitles China/France. 115 min. Not rated With Liu Wenqing, Wang  Jingchun & Yan Ni Director Wang Xiaoshuai’s autobiographical 11 Flowers turns […]

Saving Lincoln

Directed by Salvador Litvak Produced by Reuben Lim & Salvador Litvak Written by Nina Davidovich Litvak and Salvador Litvak Released by Pictures from the Fringe USA. 101 min. Not rated With Tom Amandes, Lea Coco, Penelope Ann Miller, Bruce Davison, Creed Bratton, Josh Stamberg, Robert Craighead & Saidah Arrika Ekulona The 150th anniversary of the […]

North Sea Texas

Directed by Bavo Defurne Produced by Yves Verbraeken. Written by Defurne, Yves Verbraeken, based on the book Nooit gaat dit over by Andre Sollie Released by Strand Releasing Dutch with English subtitles Belgium. 96 min. Not rated With Jelle Florizoone, Eva Van Der Gucht, Mathias Vergels, Nina Marie Kortekaas, Katelijne Damen, Luk Wyns & Thomas […]

Our Paradise

Directed & Written by Gaël Morel Produced by Paulo Branco Released by Breaking Glass Pictures French with English subtitles France. 97 min. Not rated With Stéphane Rideau, Dimitri Durdaine & Béatrice Dalle Blond and doe-eyed, Angelo (Dimitri Durdaine) is a teen prostitute whom other prostitutes pay to see naked. But being a pretty sex worker […]

A Liar’s Autobiography

Directed by Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson & Ben Timlett Written by Graham Chapman, David Sherlock, Douglas Addams, David Yallop & Alex Martin, based on the memoirs of Mr. Chapman Released by Epix/Brainstorm Media UK. 82 min. Rated R Featuring the voices of Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam and Michael Palin, and with Carole […]

Lore

Directed by Cate Shortland Produced by Karsten Stöter, Liz Watts, Paul Watts, Paul Welsh & Benny Dreschel Written by Shortland & Robin Mukherjee, based on the novel The Dark Room by Rachel Seiffert Released by Music Box Films Germany/Australia/UK. 108 min. Not Rated German with English subtitles With Saskia Rosendahl, Kai Malina, Nele Trebs, Ursina […]

Koch

Directed by Neil Barsky Produced by Jenny Carchman Released by Zeitgeist Films USA. 95 min. Not Rated Koch breezily looks back at the rise of New York City’s three-term 1980’s mayor, with insider views of the political and economic crises he pulled the city through and the ones that finally brought him down, while following […]

Teddy Bear

Directed by Mads Matthiesen Produced by Morten Kjems Juhl Written by Matthiesen & Martin Zandvliet; director of photography, Laust Trier Mork; edited by Adam Nielsen Released by Film Movement Danish, English & Thai with English subtitles. Denmark. 93 min. Not rated With Kim Kold, Elsebeth Steentoft, Lamaiporn Sangmanee Hougaard, Allan Mogensen, David Winters, Sukunya Mongkol […]

Happy People

Directed by Werner Herzog & Dmitry Vasyukov Produced by Christoph Fisser, Vladimir Perepelkin, Nick N. Raslan & Charlie Woebcken Written by Herzog & Rudolph Herzog Released by Music Box Films English & Russian with English subtitles Germany. 100 min. Not rated The documentary Happy People: A Year in the Taiga—which was shot not by director […]