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Calls from Moscow Review: Queer Rights Have Entered the Chat

by Pat Mullen
April 28, 2023
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Director Luis Alejandro Yero observes four queer Cuban men caught in Russia on the eve the invasion of Ukraine in Calls from Moscow.

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Il Buco Review: Exploring the Boundless Mysteries of the Natural World

by Mark Hanson
May 4, 2022
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Michelangelo Frammartino's Il Buco ponders the intangible mysteries of existence as curious researchers explore caves with wonder.

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Ostrov – Lost Island Review: A Community Adrift

by Pat Mullen
May 9, 2021
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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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Faya Dayi and Rift Finfinnee show Ethiopia’s struggles—but in avant-garde formats

by Daniel Glassman
May 2, 2021
Features/Hot Docs

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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The Plastic House Review: One Is the Loneliest Number

by Pat Mullen
November 19, 2020
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The Plastic House (Australia, 45 min.) Dir. Allison Chhorn For a film that emphasizes isolation, viewed during a prolonged period of isolation, The Plastic House conveys a remarkable sense of communion. This largely silent

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‘Invitation’ and the Power of Offscreen Action

by Pat Mullen
April 22, 2020
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Invitation (Nimtoh) (India, 85 min.) Dir. Saurav Rai Director Saurav Rai invites audiences to celebrate slow cinema with his debut feature Nimtoh aka Invitation. This neorealist hybrid drama, which closes Images Festival’s 2020 online edition,

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‘That Cloud Never Left’ Sees Film as a Toy, Fiction as Clay

by Pat Mullen
April 17, 2020
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That Cloud Never Left (India, 65 min.) Dir. Yashaswini Raghunandan Director Yashaswini Raghunandan has a perceptive sense of humour. Her film That Cloud Never Left opens with a title card that reads, “This is

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Review: ‘Harvest Moon’

by Pat Mullen
May 3, 2018
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Harvest Moon (Canada, 70 min.) Dir. Zaheed Mawani Programme: Canadian Spectrum (North American Premiere)   Slow cinema nuts are in for a treat with Harvest Moon. This observational film demands and rewards

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