The Return: Life After ISIS, 2021. Directed by Alba Sotorra Clua. SYNOPSIS: Shamima Begum and Hoda Muthana made worldwide headlines when they left their countries as teenagers to join ISIS. Now they want to return but their countries don’t want them back. Alba Sotorra Clua’s new documentary tackles a highly contentious, emotionally charged subject with […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – We Are As Gods
We Are As Gods, 2021. Directed by Jason Sussberg and David Alvarado. Starring Stewart Brand. SYNOPSIS: Stewart Brand, the pioneer of LSD, cyberspace, futurism, and modern environmentalism now urges people to use our god-like powers to fight extinction by reviving lost species. What seemingly begins as a standard-yet-compelling profile of futurist Stuart Brand soon enough […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Ludi
Ludi, 2021. Co-written and directed by Edson Jean. Starring Shein Mompremier, Alan Myles Heyman, Madelin Marchant, Success St. Fleur Jr., Kerline Alce, Plus Pierre, Patrice DeGraff Arenas, and Farah Larrieux. SYNOPSIS: Ludi, a hardworking and exhausted nurse, battles coworkers, clients, and one impatient bus driver to learn her self-worth as she chases the American Dream […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson
The Drover’s Wife: The Legend of Molly Johnson, 2021. Written and directed by Leah Purcell. Starring Leah Purcell, Rob Collins, Sam Reid, Jessica De Gouw, and Malachi Dower-Roberts. SYNOPSIS: A lonely bushwoman struggles to raise her children and run the family farm while her husband is away. The western genre is so seemingly, inextricably intertwined […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Luchadoras
Luchadoras, 2021. Directed by Paola Calvo and Patrick Jasim. SYNOPSIS: The courageous female wrestlers of Ciudad Juárez, a city known for its high murder rate against women – who fight in the ring and in their daily lives to redefine the image of what it means to be a woman in Mexico. While the overwhelming […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Islands
Islands, 2021. Directed by Martin Edralin. Starring Rogelio Balagtas, Sheila Lotuaco, Esteban Comilang, Vangie Alcasid, Pablo Quiogue, Isys Szuky, and Maximus Szuky. SYNOPSIS: Joshua, a shy middle-aged Filipino immigrant, has lived in the comfort of his parents’ home his entire life. As their health declines he longs for a partner, terrified of being alone after […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – The Lost Sons
The Lost Sons, 2021. Directed by Ursula Macfarlane. SYNOPSIS: 1960s Chicago, a baby is kidnapped from a hospital. Fifteen months later, a toddler is abandoned. Could he be the same baby? Ursula Macfarlane’s (Untouchable) new documentary certainly doesn’t leave viewers wanting for scandal, yet its intertwined tableau of stories and identities also feels worthy of […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Women Is Losers
Women Is Losers, 2021. Written and directed by Lissette Feliciano. Starring Lorenza Izzo, Bryan Craig, Chrissie Fit, Simu Liu, Steven Bauer, Liza Weil, Cranston Johnson, Alejandra Miranda, Shalim Ortiz, and Lincoln Bonilla. SYNOPSIS: In 1960s San Francisco, a once-promising catholic school girl, Celina Guerrera, sets out to rise above the oppression of poverty and invest […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Sound of Violence
Sound of Violence, 2021. Written and directed by Alex Noyer. Starring Jasmin Savoy Brown, Lili Simmons, James Jagger, and Tessa Munro. SYNOPSIS: A young girl recovers her hearing and gains synaesthetic abilities during the brutal murder of her family. Finding solace in the sounds of bodily harm, as an adult, she pursues a career in music […]
2021 SXSW Film Festival Review – Language Lessons
Language Lessons, 2021. Co-written and directed by Natalie Morales. Starring Mark Duplass and Natalie Morales. SYNOPSIS: A Spanish teacher and her student develop an unexpected friendship. A year-plus into the COVID-19 pandemic, many if not most of us are surely fed up with films about the global predicament, whether explicitly or tangentially. But Natalie Morales’ feature […]
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