Seven Winters in Tehran tells the story of Reyhaneh Jabbari who is sentenced to death for stabbing and killing a man who allegedly tried to rape her. Her family is distraught but, while she awaits execution, Reyhaneh fights for other women in her predicament. She states that she no longer fears death as she faces this…
In The Eternal Memory, Maite Alberdi puts memory front and centre in more ways than one. She reflects on journalist Augusto Góngora’s work documenting the dictatorship in Chile from the 1970s to the 90s, bringing that historical memory back to a new generation; and she follows Augusto and his wife, actress Paulina Urrutia’s, relationship as they…
Directed by Rama Rau, Coven follows three women who identify as witches as they step out looking for mentors. Travelling all over the world, the young women are seeing a deeper connection within themselves, nature and each other. Along the way, they discover (and grapple with) incredible pieces of their past that help them understand their history…
What happens when the story that we’ve believed turns out to be a lie? Now streaming on Apple TV+, the new series Silo tells the story of a world entrenched in fear. With a deadly outbreak ravaging the planet, the last 10,000 surviving members of the human race live within the walls an underground silo that keeps…
Take that, superhero fatigue. Just when Marvel’s quality and cultural value have begun to be challenged, Guardians of the Galaxy: Volume 3 answers all of these questions with a definitive statement. No matter what the Internet may fear, Marvel still knows how to make a great film when given the time, budget and talent. In Guardians of…
Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law is one of many films that have documented the tyranny of China in Hong Kong. This time, it’s presented through the eyes and story of Nathan Law, a man who was barely the age of 19 when he first joined the student movement against Chinese control in Hong Kong. He had…
At first, she became obsessed with the teen counter culture that was thriving in New York and Los Angeles. However, after returning from the UK in 2014, she started to document the resistance to the Chinese control over Hong Kong. The defiance began with thousands of protestors in the streets, using umbrellas to shield themselves…
Maybe the best part about Star Wars is that we feel like we’re all included. Such is the case with Star Wars: Visions, the franchise’s anthology series that allows fans the chance to participate in the Lucasfilm Legacy. Returning today with its second ‘volume’ to help Disney celebrate May the Fourth, Visions offers with 9 new shorts of different animation…
You have to see it to believe it. I don’t often say that about films, let alone documentaries, but The American Gladiators makes every second of its 170 minutes into a captivating odyssey. Looking at the hit reality competition series that originally aired from 1989 to 1996, American Gladiators consisted of an ordinary athletic American going up against a…
AT&T’s Untold Stories program is a partnership between AT&T and Tribeca Film Festival and Tribeca Film Institute to develop underrepresented content providers. The wnner of the AT&T Untold Stories Grand Prize at the 2021 Tribeca festival was Nardeep Khurmi’s Land of Gold. It may be a story that we have seen before, but it comes…
