63rd Ann Arbor Film Festival 63rd Ann Arbor Film Festival: Traveling Tour Experimental and avant-garde cinema is intentionally maverick and boundary-pushing—and the best and most engaging films on the traveling tour do just that.
Offscreen Three Canadian Films from Toronto International Film Festival 2025 A dispatch with reviews of Youngblood, 100 Sunset, and Lilith Fair: Building a Mystery
Malaga Film Festival 2025 Interview with Francisco Guijarro (Moses) "Seeing him watch his story unfold on screen, knowing it had finally been told, was one of the most powerful moments of my life."
Malaga Film Festival 2025 Moses Fran Guijarro’s feature documentary is one of the most empathetic and humanistic documentaries I’ve ever seen.
Reviews Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk — Sepideh Farsi Fatima Hassouna might have had the brightest smile and biggest eyes in all of Gaza.
Reviews Dandelion’s Odyssey Yes, you read that right: this is an animated film without words about dandelion seeds traversing the cosmos in search of a new home.
Reviews BBFF Dispatch #2: Two Baltic Movies Prominently Featuring Lakes Part of the Boston Baltic Film Festival 2025
Reviews BBFF Dispatch #1: Three Highlights from Estonia, Latvia, & Lithuania The following dispatch features reviews of Podnieks on Podnieks. A Witness to History; Five and a Half Love Stories in an Apartment in Vilnius, Lithuania; & Lioness.
Reviews Death Education Chinese teacher introduces the topic of death education to his students... by experiencing it firsthand - poetic documentary premiered at Sundance
Reviews Orenda — Pirjo Honkasalo [IFFR ’25 Review] Orenda is by no means a bad film and in fact mightily impresses in moments, its inconsistency undermines testimony of any genuine orenda.
No Gods Left Exclusive Black Velvet A genre-defiant drama about depression with a formalist flare, the Latvian-Lithuanian co-production Black Velvet uses some killer editing and funky cinematography to zero in on the strangeness and alienating effect of that unique sadness.
No Gods Left Exclusive Anna LOL Anna may not feel anything, but any audience even half paying attention will. Anna LOL is a remarkable film, and it is one of the best Baltic films I have seen so far this year.
Reviews Life & Love A good film about the psychology of desire, enticing and toxic power dynamics, and the messy pain of love.
Essays The 28th Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival BIFAN’s embrace of sexuality is one example of its willingness to reach for something extra.
Reviews Boston Palestine Film Festival (2023) Dispatch 3: Norwegian Co-Productions and Solidarity “Somebody watches something, they’re touched, and then [what]?”
Reviews Boston Palestine Film Festival (2023) Dispatch 2: Memories of the Land Palestinian cinema is unlike any other national or regional cinema.
Reviews Boston Palestine Film Festival (2023): Dispatch 1: Two Documentaries The Boston Palestine Film Festival runs in person across various venues from October 18 through October 27.
Reviews And Still The Seed (Todavia La Semilla) Sanfiorenzo skillfully connects the destruction of Puerto Rican greenery with colonialism and colonialism’s economic cousin, capitalism, and it stands apart from its National Geographic peers because of it.
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