Directed by Karim Aïnouz Produced by Geórgia Costa Araújo and Hank Levine Written by Aïnouz and Felipe Bragança Released by Strand Releasing Brazil. 107 min. Not rated With Wagner Moura, Clemens Schick, Jesuita Barbosa, and Savio Ygor Ramos Swathed in gleaming jewel tones and with a soundtrack of the pacifying acoustics of crashing waves, Futuro […]
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, […]
Edited, Written, and Directed by Robin Campillo Produced by Hugues Charbonneau and Marie-Ange Luciani Released by First Run Features French, English, Russian, and Ukrainian with English subtitles France. 128 min. Not rated With Olivier Rabourdin, Kirill Emelyanov, Danil Vorobyev, Edea Darcque, Camila Charnirova, and Beka Markozashvili In the discreet, subdued, and wholly engrossing Eastern Boys, […]
Produced and Directed by Michele Josue Released by Run Rabbit Run Media USA. 88 min. Not rated Through director Michele Josue’s choice to use the casual, familiar moniker of “Matt” in her documentary’s title, she indicates her intent to reveal a personal, untold side of the young man that, for profoundly tragic reasons, we have all […]
Written and Directed by Desiree Akhavan Produced by Cecilia Frugiuele Released by Gravitas Ventures USA. 90 min. Not rated With Scott Adsit, Desiree Akhavan, Anh Duong, Halley Feiffer, Rebecca Henderson, and Arian Moayed Films, TV shows, novels, even webcomics about urban 20somethings haltingly trying to make it are practically a genre unto themselves. With Appropriate […]
Produced and Directed by Ben Cotner and Ryan White Released by HBO Documentary Films USA. 112 min. Not rated In comparison to some of the acute, trenchant social issues currently informing U.S. political discourse—racial injustice, police brutality, biased judicial systems, third-wave feminism—the dialogue concerning same-sex marriage may now seem, to some, to be a bit […]
Directed by Morten Tyldum Produced by Nora Grossman, Ido Ostrowsky, and Teddy Schwarzman Written by Graham Moore, based on the book Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges. Released by the Weinstein Company USA/UK. 114 min. Rated R With Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Rory Kinnear, Allen Leech, Matthew Beard, Charles Dance, and Mark […]
Directed by Stefan Haupt Written by Stefan Haupt Distributor Released by Wolfe Releasing Swiss German with English subtitles Switzerland. 100 min. Not rated With Matthias Hungerbühler, Sven Schelker, Ernst Ostertag, and Röbi Rapp For a film that chronicles the climactic peak and dismaying decline of Der Kreis, one of the pioneering gay rights organizations of […]
Written and Directed by Daniel Ribeiro Released by Strand Releasing Portuguese with English subtitles Brazil. 96 min. Not rated With Ghilherme Lobo, Fabio Audi, Tess Amorim, and Isabela Guasco Stories of sexual awakening are abundant, but by creating a blind protagonist, writer/director Daniel Ribeiro has added a thought-provoking twist. Concerning desire, Ribeiro asks, in an […]