Michelangelo Frammartino's Il Buco ponders the intangible mysteries of existence as curious researchers explore caves with wonder.
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Winner of this year’s Best International Feature Documentary Award at Hot Docs, Ostrov – Lost Island is a stark portrait of a community abandoned. The film visits the titular island in the
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Jessica Beshir’s lyrical Faya Dayi and Daniel Kötter’s formalist Rift Finfinnee, two oddly similar films set in an Ethiopia struggling with the upheavals of urbanization and industrialization, are almost excellent movies. Both
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