Every year, countless directors make their directorial debuts offering new voices and perspectives, which have the power to leave a surprising impact on audiences with fresh takes and ideas. One director making their directorial debut in 2020 is Merland Hoxha, with his film The Departure, which follows a young couple as their plans to advance […]
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In the short film The Morning After, a gay interracial Brooklyn couple copes with life the day after the 2016 Presidential election. Directed by Lauren Minnerath, it’s a short story about how each person in a relationship handles huge life changes. In this case, that change is the reality that Donald Trump has become president.
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With the Femme Filmmakers Festival for 2019 now closing its doors, here are four of the films out of competition that are still totally worth checking out. ‘Fitting’ by Emily Avila Due to the sheer amount of short films being made, it’s more than difficult to stand out. The story you’re telling, whether it’s 1
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This is the second installment in a series of articles dedicated to championing films that have seen little love since their release. I would like to provide a little context before I talk about The Edge of Seventeen. This is obviously a great movie and I do believe everyone should watch it. Though I do
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Lady Bird (2017) is a coming-of-age film that was nominated for five Oscars, including Best Picture. Directed and written by Greta Gerwig, this film stars Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Beanie Feldstein and Timothée Chalamet. Christine (Ronan), also known as Lady Bird, is a 17-year-old who is applying to colleges outside of Sacramento, and this film
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Behind A Silent Voice’s immaculate, gorgeous animation, is direction so strong, so careful, and so well constructed, that it asserts Naoko Yamada as one of the great storytellers in modern animation. Yamada has an interesting obsession with using feet, perhaps the least expressive part of the body, to tell the emotional story. She does it
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We take everyday sounds for granted, the little hums and taps, the sips and steps, how the outside world of traffic and people seeps into our airspace. It is not often these arbitrary sounds form a vital and absorbing part of a short story. Crucial infact, to transporting you into the created world – even
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Having tip-toed on the verge of being exploitative in its graphical depiction of sexual assault versus actually being empowering, the rape-and-revenge genre has been a hit and miss since its formal inception in the 70s. Ranking from women being avenged by others to the survivor executing her own revenge agenda, the genre’s typical overall arch
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With its award-winning streak and Oscar nominations Capernaum is a film that evidently a hit with critics and cinema goers alike with something bold to say. With so many social and political themes building up the story; it is clear that there is a lot to say about the side of Beirut that director Nadine
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Van B. Nguyen’s Thanksgiving focuses on Ma (Elyse Dinh) while she prepares and hosts a holiday meal. And it is a beautiful, observant little film, about fitting in and acceptance. It’s just her and Ba (Joseph Hieu) living together now, but their son Tuan (Devin Hong) is expected to join them for a big gathering, and Ma is
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