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New to Streaming: Trap, One False Move, Rap World, Daaaaaalí!, The Remarkable Life of Ibelin & More

Each week we highlight the noteworthy titles that have recently hit streaming platforms in the United States. Check out this week’s selections below and past round-ups here. Daaaaaalí! (Quentin Dupieux) At the time of year where every other film is a biopic chasing prestige respectability, we are lucky to have Quentin Dupieux, the prolific, serious-minded, silly […]

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SANTOSH Trailer: Sandhya Suri’s U.K. Oscar Entry Arrives in December

Shahana Goswami in SANTOSH

Premiering in the Un Certain Regard section at this year’s Cannes Film Festival to wide acclaim, writer-director Sandhya Suri makes her feature debut with a new kind of police procedural. Santosh follows the titular protagonist (played by Shahana Goswami), a […]

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2024 Marrakech Intl. Film Fest: Jeff Nichols Patron of Atlas Workshops / Nasser Bros., Benm’Barek, Lina Soualem & Cherien Dabis Selected

2024 Marrakech Intl. Film Fest: Jeff Nichols Patron of Atlas Workshops / Nasser Bros., Benm’Barek, Lina Soualem & Cherien Dabis Selected

The 21st edition of the Marrakech International Film Festival is set to run from November 29th to December 7th and a highlight of the event is the Atlas Workshops, which, in just seven years, has evolved into a vital platform for fostering the next generation of Moroccan, Arab, and African filmmakers, many of whom have since premiered at A-list film fests such as Berlin, Cannes and Venice. This year, filmmaker Jeff Nichols from Little Rock, Arkansas, takes on the role of patron, sharing his expertise and career trajectory experiences with participants. Of the 27 selected projects selected this year we have a split of 17 projects in development and 10 films in production or post-production from 13 countries across the African continent and the Arab world.… Read the rest

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Dahomey | Review

Dahomey | Review

Plunder Years: Diop Reflects on the Complex Realities of Reparation

Mati Diop Dahomey ReviewThe spirit of Ozymandias, the classic poem from Percy Bysshe Shelley, might rouse itself in one’s mind during Mati Diop’s short but passionate documentary Dahomey – “Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!” Detailing the return of twenty-six artifacts from France to the Republic of Benin, which were among thousands plundered from the Kingdom of Dahomey by French colonialist troops in 1892, it’s a depiction of a journey with so much more going on beneath the surface than an exchange of cultural artifacts. Utilizing some effectively poetic and fantastical elements herself, Diop attempts to give voice to the past and marry it to the voices of the present, where it’s impossible to divorce oneself from the wreckage wrought by colonialism.… Read the rest

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NYC Weekend Watch: Candy Mountain, Chantal Akerman, Azazel Jacobs & More

NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings. BAMRobert Frank and Rudy Wurlitzer’s Candy Mountain begins screening in a new restoration. (Watch our exclusive trailer debut.) Museum of the Moving ImageMonsters Inc. and What About Bob? play in a Frank Oz retrospective; Chantal Akerman’s American Stories: Food, Family and Philosophy screens on Sunday; […]

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A Conversation with Sean Baker (ANORA)

Few American filmmakers have shown as consistent a dedication to portraying marginalized communities with dignity and complexity as Sean Baker. From his early collaboration with Shih-Ching Tsou on 2004’s Take Out which intimately captured the day-in-the-life of an undocumented Chinese […]

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DREAM WALKER: Fimmaker Sarah Kelley to Pitch Indigenous Teen Sci-Fi to Market at Whistler Film Festival + Content Summit

We’re always on the lookout for any Indigenous genre projects from anywhere around the World, but specifically here in Canada and Turtle Island. When news of a teen sci-fi called Dream Walker from Algonquin filmmaker Sarah Kelley crossed our desk we knew we had to share it with you.   … Finley Green embarks on a perilous journey to find her mother, navigating the turbulence of foster care and betrayal. Arriving in the misty town of Oceanside, Oregon, she forms a fragile bond with her roommate Charlotte, and is drawn to the charming but deceptive Jude. Just as she begins to hope for a brighter future, Jude’s betrayal shatters her world—he drugs her and delivers her to The Foundation, where teens with extraordinary abilities are held against…

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