Category: Film Festival
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Riding the Wave of Transness – ‘Gender Outlaw: A Bodysurfing Story’ Review
The short documentary and second place winner of the Incluvie Short Film Festival, Gender Outlaw: A Bodysurfing Story, challenges any simplistic understanding of trans people.
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Incluvie Film Fest 3rd Place Winner: ‘Warmth’ Review
This film is a splendid mix of mediums, but its strength lies in its simplicity and beautiful message of closeness.
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“Marcel the Shell with Shoes On” is the most Human Film of the Year.
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is the most human movie of the year. It is based on the 2010 short of the same name that follows a big-hearted, little shell named Marcel as he navigates through life in a human-sized world.
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“A Man Returned” – The Other Side of the Refugee Crisis
Alongside A Drowning Man, I Signed The Petition, 3 Logical Exits, and A World Not Ours, A Man Returned continues to paint a realistic portrait of the Refugee Crisis that eschews the Western gaze and stereotype. These are real portraits painted by a director with lived experience, cultural connection and an amazing eye for visuals.
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‘A Drowning Man’ Submerges Viewers in the Unseen of the Refugee Crisis
“A Drowning Man” (2017) explores the unseen aspects of the Refugee Crisis. In, 15 far-too-short minutes, viewers are given a detailed snapshot of what it’s like for a refugee to drown in the waters of poverty and otherness while trying to navigate a land whose promise has worn off, and only ‘strange’ remains.
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Sand Storm: A Look Into Bedouin Culture and the Pressure Women Feel to Keep Tradition Alive
This 2016 winner of an Ophir Award for Best Film focuses on the forbidden romance of a young, Bedouin woman and the ramifications it has for her family, her identity, and her culture.
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Master: The Horror of Deceptive Racial Politics in Academia
“It’s not ghosts. It’s not supernatural. It’s… It’s America. And it’s everywhere.”
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The Rape Post-Memory in ‘Grbavica’
I understood post-memory as passing down stories and images of one’s experiences that are not your own. For decades, rape has been depicted in cinema through a third-person perspective, leaving the viewer to observe rape; not to experience it.
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All Hail The Queen of Basketball, May She Reign in Peace…and Win An Oscar
In less than 30 minutes, Proudfoot guides the viewer through a narrative that touches on American history, mind-health issues, race, and gender politics
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You’re Probably Not ‘The Worst Person In The World’
‘The Worst Person In The World’ follows a part of life I don’t see often portrayed on-screen: extended adolescence.