Prairie Lovecan be easily described as one of the oddest independent films that hassprungup in the past year or so. It's a story that is so baffling andbizzare. Thatseems to be the main element behind the entire film and its strangecreation.  The film is the narrativefeature-length debuto...Read the entire review

CorpoCelesteis a narrative feature that is both a coming-of-age tale and anexploration offaith (or the lack thereof) in a local community church where becomingconfirmed is considered the most important social activity for youth toparticipate in and the adults in the church seem to consider theirprestige andstatus than their place in the community.

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Filmmaker Julia Murat has crafted anintrospective film with her debut narrative feature, FondMemories. The film focuses upon an old, ghost-like town thatis inhabited by several elderly individuals who seem to be living in acommunity that is standing still in time: unhinged, unmoving, orperhapsimmortal to the world that surrounds their community.

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Fathers and sons are an age old subject for filmmakers (and even a standby for at least a few filmmakers), and although there are less films about women than men, mothers and sons and mothers and daughters are also pretty common (even if too many of the latter are banal comedies rather than serious dramas). The Day I Saw Your Heart, from director / writer Jennifer Devold re, is the rarest breed: a father and daughter drama told primarily from the perspective of the daughter. It's a fascinatingly complex portrait of family dysfunction, poor communication, and the complicated emotions underneath it all.

M lanie Laurent plays Justine, a lab technician in an X-ray clinic and would-be artist, currently living with her half-sister Dom (Florence Loiret Caille) and her husband Bertrand (S bastien Castro). She's fickle when it comes to romance -- many remark about the five boyfriends she's gone through...Read the entire review

Although I think we'd all prefer to see films without clich and convention, I'm willing to forgive a little reliance on familiar scenes if the film has charm. Small Beautifully Moving Parts contains a scene where its lead character, in the middle of a soul-searching road trip, lets out an existential scream of frustration at a rest stop. It is about a woman who learns she's pregnant, and becomes concerned that she relates more to her current life than the one she's about to give birth to, and about a child reconnecting with an estranged parent before having their own kid. Despite this adding up to a movie most viewers have already seen and will likely see again, it works, because director/writers Annie Howell and Lisa Robinson have a light touch and a remarkably winning lead actor.

The pregnant woman in question is Sarah Sparks (Anna Margaret Hollyman), who can hardly stop thinking about the ...Read the entire review

ForeignLettersis a beautifully stamped love letter to friendship and to theeverlastingessence of relationships between human beings. We all long to connect.We longfor affection, for love, for meaning, for understanding, and forsomeone we canbe there for and who can be there for us.

Thestory is simple but profoundbecause of how relatable it...Read the entire review

Queen of Heartsis a little comedy thatsets its heart at anyone who has ever experienced an emotional breakupwithsomeone and who fears the worst: totalrejection and loneliness the entire-world-over.Read the entire review

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King of Devil's Island is set in the brutal juvenile prison camp on Bast y Island in 1915. The movie begins with the arrival of two new inmates: the bruiser Erling (Benjamin Helstad) and the timid Ivar (Magnus Langlete). Ivar admits that he stole from the church collection, and that's why he was sent to Bast y. Erling doesn't confirm nor deny, but it's rumored that he killed a man. Both boys will be responsible for altering the mood of the reform school, setting off a narrative that slowly comes to a boil, culminating in dangerous violence and tragic consequences.

Based on a true story, King of Devil's Island is the latest from director Marius Holst (Dragonfly). He cast Stellan Skarsg rd (Read the entire review

Amadoris the latest dramatic work by directorFernando Leon De Aranoa (Monday's in theSun, Princesas). We begin thefilm with a beautiful shot of a flow...Read the entire review

Gulistan (Senay Orak) and brotherFirat (Muhammed Al) experience the loss of both of their loving parents(asdoes their own baby sibling, whom they must now learn to take care of)as bothparents are murdered - in front of them - for their political activism.Before Your Eyes is a tragic story ofloss and survival.

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Vasermil isset in Israel, but unlike many films made about or within the countryit doesn'tfocus intently upon Palestinian conflicts or directly related issues.Instead,the storytelling takes a very different course by focusing upon thelives ofJewish Israeli teens and their day to day lives. The film makes animmenseeffort to ...Read the entire review

Karen Cries on the Bus is oneofthose increasingly rare examples of cinema that aims to bring theaudiencecloser to understanding a central character in a realistic and engagingway. Itdoesn't have a particularly complicated story (so many viewers aregoing torecall elements of this story from other movies) but the scre...Read the entire review

Protektor is astory set during the holocaust. This is adefining element of the film but it isn't something that gives you athoroughunderstanding of what it was about. It isn't a film that intends tofullyexplore the atrocities or repercussions of what happened in GermanyduringWorld War II. This is instead a story almost entirely...Read the entire review