Honeyland / Macedonia. In a deserted Macedonian village, Hatidze, a fiftysomething woman in a bright yellow blouse and green headscarf, trudges up a hillside to check her bee colonies nestled in the rocks. Serenading them with a secret chant, she gently maneuvers the honeycomb without netting or gloves. Back at her homestead, Hatidze tends to […]

Light from light / USA (Director and Screenwriter: Paul Harrill; Producers: James M. Johnston, Kelly Williams, Toby Halbrooks, Elisabeth Moss, Tim Headington, Theresa Steele; Principal Cast: Marin Ireland, Jim Gaffigan, Josh Wiggins, Atheena Frizzell, David Cale). Single mom Shelia, gifted with sometimes-prophetic dreams, moonlights as a paranormal investigator while working at a car-rental service counter and raising her teenage son, Owen. […]

Little Monsters  / Australia (Director  and Screenwriter: Abe Forsyth; Producers: Jodi Matterson, Bruna Papandrea, Steve Hutensky, Keith Calder, Jess Wu Calder; Principal Cast: Lupita Nyong’o, Alexander England, Josh Gad). After a rough breakup, directionless Dave (Alexander England) crashes at his sister’s place and spends his days expanding his young nephew’s questionable vocabulary. When an opportunity arises to chaperone an upcoming school […]

Souvenir / United Kingdom (Director and Screenwriter: Joanna Hogg; Producers: Luke Schiller, Joanna Hogg; Principal Cast: Honor Swinton Byrne, Tom Burke, Tilda Swinton). Between script pitches and camera setups, Julie hosts a film-school cohort party where she meets a mysterious man named Anthony. A few days later, Anthony invites Julie to a grand hotel and asks to stay with […]

Photograph / India (Director: Ritesh Batra; Screenwriter : Ritesh Batra; Producers: Neil Kopp, Vincent Savino, Anish Savjani; Principal Cast: Nawazuddin Siddiqui). Sanya Malhotra Rafi works as a street photographer in frenzied Mumbai, snapping improvised portraits for tourists at the city’s landmarks. When his ailing grandmother—who has always hoped that Rafi would start a family—comes to visit, he scrambles […]

Greener Grass / USA. (Directors and Screenwriters: Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe; Produced By  Natalie Metzger; Principal Cast: Jocelyn DeBoer, Dawn Luebbe, Beck Bennett, Neil Casey, Mary Holland, D’Arcy Carden).  Jill and Lisa live in their perfect homes in their idyllic suburban community with their happy families. Their days are spent in the grocery store exchanging fashion tips and at […]

Monos / Colombia/Argentina/Netherlands/Germany/Sweden/Uruguay (Director: Alejandro Landes; Screenwriters: Alejandro Landes, Alexis Dos Santos; Producers: Alejandro Landes, Fernando Epstein, Santiago Zapata, Cristina Landes; Principal Cast: Julianne Nicholson, Moisés Arias, Sofia Buenaventura, Deiby Rueda, Karen Quintero, Laura Castrillón). Belonging to a rebel group called “the Organization,” a ragtag band of child soldiers, brandishing guns and war names like Rambo, Wolf, Lady, and […]

Lapü / Colombia (Directors: Juan Pablo Polanco, César Alejandro Jaimes; Screenwriters: Juan Pablo Polanco, César Alejandro Jaimes María Canela Reyes; Producer: Julián Quintero). On a windy night in the Colombian desert, a young Wayúu woman named Doris sleeps in her hammock and has a dream that she reunites with a deceased cousin. When she awakens and shares […]

The Lodge. Na primeira sessão de meia-noite do Festival de Sundance 2019, The Lodge, dirigido pelos austríacos Severin Fiala e Veronika Franz, provou que o primeiro trabalho da dupla, o excelente e perturbador Boa Noite, Mamãe, não foi um golpe de sorte. No novo filme, os diretores demonstram terem total domínio da narrativa de suspense e terror, […]

Hail Satan ? / USA  (Director:  Penny Lane; Produced by Gabriel Sedgwick). A look at the quick rise and influence of the controversial religious group known as The Satanic Temple. With unprecedented access, this documentary traces the rise of The Satanic Temple: only six years old and already one of the most controversial religious movements in American history. […]