drama
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Disco Limbo
Argentinian filmmakers Fredo Landaveri and Mariano Toledo feature film directing debut is a little like one long hallucinatory trip. There is a vague story line to the narrative which is not that easy to follow, but somehow that doesn’t seem to the point of this rambling and rather bizarre avant-garde piece that looks like it was made by Film…
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Even Lovers Get The Blues
Belgian writer/director Laurent Micheli’s debut feature film is an audacious look at a tight knit group of 30-something-year-old friends who all seem to have insatiable sex lives which doesn’t seem to make them happy at all. Ana (Marie Denys) is sleeping with Hugo (Gaël Maleux), Dalhia (Adriana Da Fonseca) with Graciano (Gabriel Da Costa), Léo (Séverine Porzio) with Louis…
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Tamara
For her fourth time in the director’s chair Venezuelan/American filmmaker Elia K. Schneider chose to tell a dramatized version of the controversial true-life story of the Law Professor who transitioned into Tamara Adrián and who would go on to become the first transgender person ever elected to Venezuela’s National Assembly. The movie version of the story…
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I, Olga Hepnarova
The horrifying real-life story of the mass-murderer Olga Hepnarova, who was the last woman to be hung in Czechoslovakia in 1975 aged 22 after she deliberately drove a truck through a line of people waiting at a bus-stop, makes for very bleak viewing. Shot in black and white in the bleak depressed town where this…
