Seeking escape and adventure, two friends find their travels stumped by a lack of funds and prospects. To pay off their foreign exchange fees, the two join a ‘work-to-travel’ program which lands them in a remote Australian community. At first, they take it as a chance to discover a new part of the country and…
What happens if you take the Broadway musical–what has often been considered America’s most wholesome and charming form of theatre–but it was raunchy and proudly queer? That’s what Dicks: The Musical tries to answer in its short but song-filled comedy. The film follows Craig and Trevor (Aaron Jackson and Joshua Sharp, who also wrote the…
Death of a Whistleblower tells the true story of Luyanda Masinda (Noxolo Dlamini), a reporter who is compelled into action when her friend, Stanley, is suspiciously murdered. Stanley was working on an explosive story about government corruption and Luyinda scours his laptop for information. As she peels back the incredible layers of fraud, she encounters Albert…
In a natural evolution from his Oscar-nominated feature Les Miserables (not the musical), Mali born French auteur Ladj Ly goes back to his own neighborhood to tell the story of Baitment 5 (or Les Indesirables), a group of housing units made up of deteriorating apartments where the elevator doesn’t work. In his serious indictment of…
Change is almost always scary for me. I don’t like my routine being interrupted, and Iespecially find it difficult to accept that if I want to ‘make something of myself’ or even justsurvive, I have to be willing to try new, often risky things. In A Road to A Village, director Nabin Subba, looks at…
Spring Break in Malia! That’s what the main characters of How to Have Sex, Molly Manning Walker’s debut feature, have on their mind. Under the colored strobe lights, the brisk beachside sun and a little emotional coercion, the group are set them with a poolside room that should make for the perfect vacation. Escaping the…
Directed by Um Tae-hwa, Concrete Utopia tells the story of the residents of the Hwang Gung apartment complex as they navigate survival after an earthquake destroys all the other buildings and leaves theirs standing. Soon, they are also approached for shelter by people in the city who have lost their homes. The residents appoint Yeon-tak…
To say Miyazaki has a new classic seems both par for the course and wholly unexpected. Given his career full of films that will go down as some of the most influential and important works in art there has never been a doubt the man is a genius visionary. Still, at the age of 82,…
Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut, Woman of the Hour, tells the story of Cheryl Bradshaw (also played by Kendrick). Bradshaw is a struggling actress who appears on as a bachelorette on The Dating Game, a TV game show where bachelors compete for an all-expense paid trip with said bachelorette. The day she appears, serial killer and…
In I Do Not Come to You by Chance (directed by Ishaya Bako and based on the novel of the same name by Adaobi Tricia Obinne Nwaubani), Kingsley, the oldest son of a Nigerian Igbo family is tasked with taking care of his mother and siblings as his father suffers from a medical condition. He remembers his childhood…
