In the Rearview: Escape from war
Since the war began, more than 15 million Ukrainians have left their country seeking safety. In...
Tag: Poland
Sundance: A Real Pain – Struggling for relationship
“This will be a tour about pain…, also a tour that celebrates the people.” It’s hard to categorize...
Love Gets a Room – Life and Death Coexist
The title card that opens Rodrigo Cortés’s Love Gets a Room, gives us the setting of the story (Warsaw in January 1942) and the context of the Warsaw ghetto filled with 400,000 Jews with suffering and inevitable death...
Slamdance 2023 – The Gritty Festival
It is the time of year for a gritty film festival taking place in Park City, Utah. The big news...
EO – Four-legged Odysseus
Aesop told fables with animals to teach about human nature. In the Torah we find a story of Balaam...
My Name Is Sara – A Unique Too Common Story
?You have to survive. It will be our revenge.? Steven Oritt?s premiere feature film, My Name Is...
I’ll Find You – Music, Love, and War
It is hard enough for star-crossed lovers to find a path to happiness, but when you stick the...
This Year’s Oscar Nominated Live Action Shorts
Short films can be good training for future filmmakers, or they can be an artform in themselves....
Slamdance 2022 – More shorts (including some award winners)
Yes, there are more films to cover from Slamdance, especially short films, so let?s catch up on...
Sweat – Alone in the Crowd
We live in a world of so much connectedness, yet how connected are we to one another? In Magnus...
Reporting from Slamdance – Narrative Features (Part 1)
I want to use this report to touch on a few of the films that are part of the Narrative Feature...
Corpus Christi – The Body of Christ
?Each of us is a priest of Christ. Me, you. Each and every one of you.? Oscar-nominated Corpus...
1on1 with Jan Komasa (CORPUS CHRISTI)
I recently had the opportunity to speak by phone with Jan Komasa, director of the Polish film...