About as anticipated as a six-hour documentary on exiled Russian journalists gets, Julia Loktev’s My Undesirable Friends: Part II — Exile—the follow-up to 2024’s Last Air in Moscow, the winner of our Indie Film Site Network Advocate Award—has seemingly proved...
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THE STORY – An ex-DEA operative must return to the mountains of South America in an effort to find his missing niece and nephew, following the brutal murders of their diplomat parents. Enlisting the help of a washed-up junkie war photographer,...
It's hard to fathom, even in hindsight, how a film about a dictatorship, its long reach into the lives of seemingly ordinary people, a love of old movie houses and carnivals, and something of an experimental narrative structure, could translate...
THE STORY – Belgrade is a city split in two. In the occupied buildings and crowded streets, Lena fights for a world she believes can be changed. From the same neighbourhood, Stefan is torn between the life he wants and...
Andrey Zvyagintsev interrogates Russia in the same way 1990s era Zhang Yimou interrogated China: Methodically, metaphorically, and with an astutely savage eye for beautiful visuals to mask the criticism. There is a scene in his latest film, Minotaur, where the...
“Politics is show business for ugly people.” — Roger Stone Canada seems boring to most, but I was recently trying to make it sound more interesting to an American friend by explaining the nation’s current nepo-baby predicament. The respective sons...
THE STORY – A seemingly perfect middle-class Chinese family faces an unprecedented situation when their daughter Lei brings a man home on New Year’s Eve to pretend to be her boyfriend. Her same-sex girlfriend’s unexpected visit intertwines her with a...