Save Yourselves! offers a slice of small sci-fi in a comedy world, attempting to mesh social commentary with general irreverence. Unfortunately, the laughs fad...
There is a wonderful idea that fuels Wander Darkly, written and directed by Tara Miele. How do we reckon with tragedy? What goes on in our head while we proces...
An immersive documentary, Jerry Rothwell’s The Reason I Jump places us internally within the mind of the nonverbal autistic, allowing empathy to flow in. Inspi...
Call him the Bernie Sanders of Kenya. In a country where voters come with their hands out seeking bribes, Boniface “Softie” Mwangi has been able to raise enoug...
“If you’re not picky, you can eat them on anything.” So says one of the elite group of experienced, elder Italian truffle hunters portrayed in Michael Dweck an...
Playwright Radha Blank’s spirited directorial debut The 40-Year-Old Version in an often hilarious and heartfelt autobiographical tale of reinvention. Surrounde...
There is a scene in the middle of The Last Shift in which our two main characters–Stanley (Richard Jenkins) and Jevon (Shane Paul McGhie)–get into an argument ...
The existential quandaries of death and what may happen after our final breath is the subject of countless films, including a stand-out here at Sundance. But w...
The Hangzhou of Zheng Lu Xinyaun’s The Cloud in Her Room is a funereal city, a protean place rife with cranes and construction sites, where new buildings mushr...
Penelope and Dimitris are professional pet cremators. They roam the sprawling periphery of an industrial Greek town, retrieve defunct animals from their owners...
