Director Michal Krzywicki’s dystopian sci-fi film The Day I Found a Girl in the Trash places us in Poland in 2026. We are told that the Polish government has enacted a system wherein those convicted ...
When I was in grammar school one of the metrics by which teachers assessed students’ performance was something labelled “self-directedness.” Given that I went to grammar school in the States, on...
Ghofrane Binous is a twenty-five-year-old caught up in the political uncertainty of a Post-Arab Spring Tunisia. Director Raja Amari’s documentary, She Had a Dream, takes us along Binous’ journey...
Director Tracey Deer’s coming-of-age drama, Beans, tells the story of a young girl that goes by the nickname Beans (Kiawentiio). Her and her family are Mohawk. The film opens with Beans interviewing...
The Cypriot film, Pause, opens with a shot of a woman sitting in a gynecologist’s waiting room. Elpida’s (Stella Fyrogeni) face appears exhausted. She seems zoned out, caught in a labyrinth of her o...