Written and Directed by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov Produced by Magdalena Ilieva, Konstantina Stavrianou, Rena Vougioukalou, Grozeva and Valchanov Released by Film Movement Bulgarian with English subtitles Bulgaria. 105 min. Not rated.. With Margita Gosheva, Ivan Barnev, Ivan Savov and Stefan Denolyubov The Lesson, a haunting portrait from Bulgaria, begins with a serious, hard-working […]
Written and Directed by Sydney Freeland Produced by Chad Burris and Mateo Frazier Released by Indion Entertainment USA. 89 min. Not rated. With Jeremiah Bitsui, Carmen Moore, MorningStar Angeline, Shauna Baker, Kiowa Gordon, Elizabeth Frances, and Richard Ray Whitman Drunktown’s Finest is about identity in its many forms: race, religion, gender, sexual orientation, and nationality, […]
Directed by Henry Corra and Regina Nicholson Produced by Jeremy Amar Written by Corra, Nicholson and Kimberley Hassett Released by International Film Circuit/Corra Films. USA. 102 min. Not rated “If it’s a struggle to live, you better fucking know what you’re struggling for,” proclaims Regina Nicholson after another grueling round of surgeries and chemo. What […]
Written and Directed by Ronit Elkabetz and Shlomi Elkabetz Produced by Marie Masmonteil, Sandrine Brauer, and Shlomi Elkabetz Released by Music Box Films Hebrew, French, Arabic with English subtitles France/Israel/Germany. 115 min. Not Rated With Ronit Elkabetz, Simon Abkarian, Menashe Noy, Sasson Gabay, Eli Gorstein, and Gabi Amrani The struggle of modern women against conservative […]
Written and Directed by Uberto Pasolini Produced by Pasolini, Christopher Simon, and Felix Vossen Released by Tribeca Film UK/Italy. 93 min. Not rated With Eddie Marsan, Joanne Froggatt, Karen Drury, and Andrew Buchan John May (Happy-Go-Lucky’s Eddie Marsan) has made a career of going to funerals. More specifically, he goes to the ones no one […]
Edited, Written, and Directed by Xavier Dolan Produced by Nancy Grant and Dolan Released by Roadside Attractions. French with English subtitles Canada. 139 min. Rated R With Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément, Antoine Olivier Pilon, Patrick Huard, Alexandre Goyette, Michèle Lituac, Viviane Pacal and Nathalie Hamel-Roy In Xavier Dolan’s Cannes’ Jury Prize winner, Mommy, the overarching […]
Directed by Sam Fleischner Produced by Andrew Neel, Veronica Nickel, Dave Saltzman and Craig Shilowich Written by Rose Lichter-Marck and Micah Bloomberg, based on a story by Lichter-Marck Released by Oscilloscope Laboratories. USA. 100 min. Not rated With Andrea Suarez Paz, Jesus Sanchez-Velez, Azul Zorrilla, Tenoch Huerta Mejía and Marsha Stephanie Blake Director Sam Fleischner […]
Directed by Mona Fastvold Produced by Karin Julsrud and Turid Oversveen Written by Fastvold and Brady Corbet Norway/USA. 98 min. Not rated With Gitte Witt, Christopher Abbott, Brady Corbet, and Stephanie Ellis Unspoken secrets and untold rage permeate this debut feature from Brooklyn-based, Norwegian-raised filmmaker Mona Fastvold. The writer/director impresses with her shaping of disquieting […]
Written and Directed by Mariana Rondón Produced and Edited by Marité Ugás Released by Cinema Tropical/FiGa Films Spanish with English subtitles Venezuela/Peru/Germany. 93 min. Not rated With Samuel Lange, Samantha Castillo, Nelly Ramos, and María Emilia Sulbarán Gunshots, screeching tires, barking dogs, police sirens: noises that are often indicative of imminent peril are as commonplace […]