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Review

Brainwashed: Sex-Camera-Power

by Lillian Crawford

Nina Menkes’ broad-strokes, reactionary investigation of the male gaze is more interested in cherry-picking than it is insightful critique.

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2
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Two people, a woman and a child, embracing in a grassy field with mountains and trees in the background.
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The Eight Mountains

by Rafa Sales Ross

The lifelong friendship between two men is the subject of Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s poignant Alps-set drama.

4
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4
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Pamfir

by David Jenkins

An in-your-face and vibrant gangster comedy set on the Ukraine-Romania border about a man who powers through life and directly into disaster.

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4
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Two men, one with curly hair and one with a moustache, in a close, intense conversation.
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The Blue Caftan

by Marina Ashioti

In her second feature, Maryam Touzani fashions a complex tale about love that aptly deals with the complexities of repressed sexuality.

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4
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Harka

by Josh Slater-Williams

A young man in Tunisia steps up to care for his younger sisters following the death of their father in Lotfy Nathan’s electrifying drama.

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4
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A young woman reading a map on a city street, surrounded by traffic and pedestrians.
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Return to Seoul

by Ella Kemp

Davy Chou’s bittersweet comedy of a Korean adoptee searching for her biological parents is powered by a dazzling lead performance.

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4
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Two costumed individuals, one with long dreaded hair, standing in a sci-fi spacecraft interior.
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3

by Hannah Strong

James Gunn bids the MCU an emotional farewell in the final outing for his rabble-rousing gang of space pirates.

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3
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Rodeo

by Katherine McLaughlin

A young French-Guadeloupian woman enters the male-dominated world of moto cross biking in Lola Quivoron’s daring debut feature.

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3
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Little Richard: I Am Everything

by David Jenkins

The ​“Quasar of Rock” is the subject of this juicy and insightful documentary which prizes deep cultural analysis over the usual bobbysoxer hysteria.

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3
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Love According to Dalva

by Alexandria Slater

Belgian filmmaker Emmanuelle Nicot approaches the subject of child sexual abuse with great sensitivity in her debut feature.

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