Luke Gilford‘s National Anthem, featuring Charlie Plummer and Eve Lindley, is a visually stunning and emotionally resonant exploration of identity and belonging within the unique setting of a queer rodeo in the American West.
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For fellow cinephiles and gothic horror fans, Adrien Beau‘s The Vourdalak is a visual treat that left me curious about the filmmaker’s future work in the genre. This film, an adaptation of Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy’s 1839 novella ‘La Famille du Vourdalak’, predates Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’ by over half a century and is a welcome addition to the vampire lore.
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The myth of María Lionza, a deity of the Venezuelan jungle, merges with the experience of a migrant filmmaker yearning for her lost Goddess. Over the years, the iconic statue in her honour became damaged by the passage of time.
Filmmaker Ximena Pereira began to document the debacle over the iconic statue. On the one hand, the ‘Broken Goddess’ was sheltered at the Central University of Venezuela. On the other, the Mayor’s Office of Caracas wanted to install a replica to replace the original piece.
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On my last day at Hot Docs this past May, I had the pleasure of seeing Carlota Nelson‘s ‘Eyes of the Soul: Cristina García Rodero’ (La Mirada Oculta). The film follows the life and work of world-renowned photographer Cristina García Rodero.
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Documentary Chasing Time reunites Extreme Ice Survey project lead and photographer James Balog with the Emmy-winning team behind Chasing Ice to capture the end of the epic undertaking and spotlight the power of an intergenerational effort to seed hope and inspire action toward a sustainable future.
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Three British teenage girls go on a rites-of-passage holiday, drinking, clubbing and hooking up in what should be the best summer of their lives. As they dance their way across the sun- drenched streets of Malia, they find themselves navigating the complexities of sex, consent and self-discovery. Captured with lush visuals and a pitch-perfect soundtrack, Molly Manning Walker’s directorial debut, How to Have Sex, paints a painfully familiar portrait of young adulthood, and how first sexual experiences should – or shouldn’t – play out.
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With Love and a Major Organ is written by Julia Lederer, based on her stage play, and is set in a world where hearts are made of inanimate objects and people suppress emotions to escape into technology.
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The documentary Praying for Armageddon is a political thriller that reveals the power and influence of U.S. fundamentalist Evangelicals, as they aim to fulfill the Armageddon prophecy.
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Set in the mid 1990’s, a Japanese Canadian woman grappling with the recent death of her mother brings her family to a self-development retreat. When her distressed relationship with her husband begins to affect the children’s emotional security, the family is forever changed.
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The Settlers (Los Colonos) is first feature film by Chilean filmmaker Felipe Gálvez Haberle. In this quasi-Western film, we are taken back in time to a remote area of Chile where wealthy land owners are clearing the land for further agricultural and farming developments… or so it appears.
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