?We don?t even know each other anymore?or ourselves.? Among the sacrifices many immigrants face is long separation from the people they love. In Ekwu Msangi?s Farewell Amor, a family is reunited in the US after many years apart. There are cultural differences for...
?Do you think we believe what we want?? ?It may be the other way around; we believe things whether we want to or not.? Theo Love?s true crime doc Alabama Snake is a search for truth amidst conflicting accounts. Finding the truth may rest more on what we believe and...
If your mind pictures a Buddhist monastery as a step back in time or as a place of detachment from worldly things, you may be in for a surprise when you see Sing Me a Song from documentary filmmaker Thomas Balm?s. Balm?s first visited the monastery in Bhutan ten years...
Is healing a return to what came before, or is it finding life anew? In Darius Marder?s Sound of Metal, a man has to decide what he will accept in his life that has been turned upside down. He discovers that what he thinks will make him whole may not be as good as he...
?Don?t give up on the crazy; that?s what makes love love.? Dennis Dugan?s Love, Weddings & Other Disasters begins with a spectacular breakup during a skydive, which ends up sweeping a wedding party off a dock, which becomes a viral video that earns florist Jessie...
We didn?t need psychologists to tell us about sibling rivalry. Any parent with two children will be familiar with the concept (as will anyone with brothers or sisters). It is certainly present in biblical stories, starting with Cain and Abel. The sibling rivalry story...
?It?s only when you?ve lost everything that you realize what you?re really missing.? In Vincent Woods?s film The Loss Adjuster, a modern-day Job is having one of the worst days of his life. It begins with his wife leaving him and goes steadily downhill. Martin Dyer...
In Van Maximillian Carlson?s Princess of the Row, the model of familial loves is boiled down to a teenage girl and the love she has for her father. That may not seem a very difficult concept, but the father in this instance is problematic. Alicia (Tayler Buck) has...
We may not expect an Oscar nominated writer/directorto bring us a short film. But then we don?t often know what to expect from Yorgos Lanthimos (three nominations between The Lobster and The Favourite). Nimic is twelve minutes worth of the kind of surreal weirdness...