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Asra [Caio Cortonesi, Brazil, 2018]
Asra delivers a beautifully honest and compelling story that tackles subjects not just strikingly uncommon in cinema...
Daniel Hess
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One Last Bite [John Ferrer, UK, 2020]
The roots of the zombie sub-genre in horror cinema can be traced all the way back to White Zombie [Victor Halperin, USA, 1932], with the...
Daniel Hess
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Eddie’s Reel [Will Haynes, UK, 2020]
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Adam Donald
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8 ¾ [Shawn M. Cheatham, USA, 2020]
Film always has and always will have the power to transcend simple moving images to create an honest reflection of life. No director was...
Daniel Hess
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The Cycle [Weronika Mliczewska, USA , 2015]
They say that a man with nothing to lose is the most dangerous. Weronika Mliczewska’s The Cycle sets out to augment that adage slightly,...
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Clown [Shane O'Neill, Republic of Ireland/UK, 2021]
The American film critic and theoretician, Bill Nichols, once said that non-fiction stories could be about almost anything.
Natalia Brammen
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Library [Kaveh Kanani, Islamic Republic of Iran, 2020]
Library (Fingils) is a short, sweet, and simple animation from the Islamic Republic of Iran. Set in a world inhabited by animals...
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Close Away [Miguel Ángel Cardona, Spain, 2020]
Close Away (Cerca de Lejos) illustrates the evolving nature of human sexual interactions; highly topical in an age of physical isolation...
Sharleen Opia
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Quiet Moments [Lucy Birnie, UK, 2021]
Pandemic filmmaking is a real phenomenon that is spawning some quality cinema from hardy creatives that are bending over backwards...
Luca di-Maio
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Soyka [Anastasiya Sergienya, USA, 2020]
Anna is a bird that has flown the nest. A Belarusian immigrant finding her way in the bustling metropolis of New York City...
Dean Archibald-Smith
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