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Navalny

Mar 2, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, Hot Docs, New images from Ukraine, Sundance

Director Daniel Roher’s gripping documentary about the poison plot against Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny gains extra urgency in the light of Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine.

Twice Colonized

Jan 24, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, Sundance, Sundance 2023

Danish documentary filmmaker Lin Alluna’s feature-length debut veers away from the political to reveal the internal conflicts tearing at the Greenland-born, Denmark-educated and Canada-based Inuit civil rights activist Aaju Peter.

Mamacruz

Jan 21, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, Sundance

Kiti Manver plays a religious grandmother who accidentally discovers online porn, igniting a comedy that empowers older women while poking fun at Spain’s dwindling Catholic faithful.

My Old School

Apr 14, 2022 | Dublin, Festivals, Glasgow, Hot Docs, Spotlight, Sundance

Scottish director Jono McLeod’s debut documentary ‘My Old School’ is a highly entertaining account of an outlandish fraud and its lingering aftershocks.

Neptune Frost

Jan 26, 2022 | Cannes, Festivals, London, Spotlight, Sundance, Toronto

This frequently perplexing sci-fi musical has a lot to say about the politics of race, but its true triumph is its music and gorgeous visuals.

The Territory

Jan 26, 2022 | Festivals, Sundance

This involving documentary captures the plight of the Uru-eu-wau-wau community fighting for its land in the Amazon.

Babysitter

Jan 25, 2022 | Festivals, Spotlight, Sundance

‘Babysitter’ steers clear of preachiness in its half-scolding and often amusing examination of sexual and sexist attitudes in the wake of #MeToo.

Midwives

Jan 25, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Sundance

Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing’s first feature-length documentary offers a mellow and intimate portrait of two midwives – one a Buddhist, the other Muslim – who defy the deadly inter-communal conflict around them to become friends and health care providers for their poverty-stricken communities.

Piggy

Jan 25, 2022 | Cannes Marché du Film, CANNES MARCHE' DU FILM, Festivals, Sundance

Fans of slasher films will revel in this darkly comic subversion of the genre premiering at Sundance, where an obese, bullied teenager gets her revenge on the village mean girls.

Girl Picture

Jan 25, 2022 | Festivals, International Oscars 2024, Sundance

Three high school girls in Finland pursue love and orgasm in Alli Haapasalo’s frank and often warmly emotional tale aimed at teen audiences.

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