drama
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Heaven Without People
The setting for this family drama is the home of a Lebanese Christian family who for the first time have managed to get their entire clan together for an Easter lunch. The matriarch Josephine (Samira Sarkis) is nominally in charge, but very soon as the lively conversation gets going with several family members talking…
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Sollars Point
24-year-old Keith (MacCaul Lombardi) may actually be out of jail after serving time for drug dealing but as he still has to wear a police monitoring ankle bracelet and live at home with his father, he feels that his punishment is not over yet. There is no real connection at all between him and his father Carol (Jim…
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Guys Reading Poems
Hunter Lee Hughes’s new feature film that has its digital release today is probably one of the most achingly beautiful movies that we shall see all year. His exquisitely layered piece which is part drama and part fantasy unfolds with a stream of ridiculously handsome young men reeling off some 32 poems that acts…
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La Familia
This debut feature film from Venezuelan filmmaker Gustavo Ronon Cordova which is not just a mere indictment of the financial consequences of his country’s near economic collapse, but on the dire effects it has on the family. His two-hander of a story is of a father and son living in near slum conditions in a rough no-go area of…
