President, 2021. Directed by Camilla Nielsson. SYNOPSIS: Zimbabwe is at a crossroads. The leader of the opposition MDC party, Nelson Chamisa, challenges the old guard ZANU-PF led by Emmerson Mnangagwa, known as “The Crocodile.” The election tests both the ruling party and the opposition. A “sequel” to Camilla Nielsson’s 2014 documentary Democrats, President returns viewers to Zimbabwe to […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Ma Belle, My Beauty
Ma Belle, My Beauty, 2021. Written and directed by Marion Hill. Starring Idella Johnson, Hannah Pepper, Lucien Guignard, and Sivan Noam Shimon. SYNOPSIS: A surprise reunion in the South of France reignites passions and jealousies between two women who were formerly polyamorous lovers. Polyamory is an oddly circumscribed subject in cinema, largely unexplored even by […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Writing with Fire
Writing with Fire, 2021. Directed by Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh. SYNOPSIS: In a cluttered news landscape dominated by men emerges India’s only newspaper run by Dalit women. Chief reporter Meera and her journalists break traditions, redefining what it means to be powerful. A piece of documentary filmmaking as necessarily courageous as its incredible subjects, Writing with […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – All Light, Everywhere
All Light, Everywhere, 2021. Directed by Theo Anthony. SYNOPSIS: A far-ranging look at the biases in how we see things, focusing on the use of police body cameras. Probably the only film in Sundance history to begin with a shot of the director’s own eyeball, All Light, Everywhere is the latest project from acclaimed video essayist Theo […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Violation
Violation, 2020. Written and directed by Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli. Starring Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Anna Maguire, Jesse LaVercombe, Obi Abili, Jasmin Geljo, and Cynthia Ashperger. SYNOPSIS: A troubled woman on the edge of divorce returns home to her younger sister after years apart. But when her sister and brother-in-law betray her trust, she embarks on […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Luzzu
Luzzu, 2021. Written and directed by Alex Camilleri. Starring Jesmark Scicluna, Michela Farrugia, and David Scicluna. SYNOPSIS: Jesmark, a struggling fisherman on the island of Malta, is forced to turn his back on generations of tradition and risk everything by entering the world of black market fishing to provide for his girlfriend and newborn baby. […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It, 2021. Directed by Mariem Pérez Riera. Featuring Rita Moreno. SYNOPSIS: A look at the life and work of Rita Moreno from her humble beginnings in Puerto Rico to her success on Broadway and in Hollywood. Whether you know her from West Side Story, Oz, […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Users
Users, 2021. Directed by Natalia Almada. SYNOPSIS: Documentary explores how humanity expresses itself with technology and the intended and unintended consequences of our tech-dominated world. Natalia Almada (Everything Else) scooped Sundance’s Directing Award for U.S. Documentary for her new film Users, a gorgeously wrought elucidation of the cost of human progress, if also ultimately a little […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)
Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), 2021. Directed by Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson. SYNOPSIS: During the same summer as Woodstock, over 300,000 people attended the Harlem Cultural Festival, celebrating African American music and culture, and promoting Black pride and unity. The footage from the festival sat in a basement, unseen for […]
2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – John and the Hole
John and the Hole, 2021. Directed by Pascual Sisto. Starring Charlie Shotwell, Michael C. Hall, Jennifer Ehle, and Taissa Farmiga. SYNOPSIS: While exploring the neighbouring woods, 13-year-old John discovers an unfinished bunker – a deep hole in the ground. Seemingly without provocation, he drugs his affluent parents and older sister and drags their unconscious bodies into […]
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