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by :Ela Bittencourt
11-23-2020
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Dream of Women’s Collectivity: ODORIKO by Yoichiro Okutani

Watching Odoriko, the splendid immersive documentary by the Japanese director Yoichiro Okutani, I kept asking myself what was being left out of the picture. Okutani's compassionate camera observes the women who work at a Japanese striptease theater, performing at times elaborate,...

FICValdivia: Still from Toda La Luz Que Podamos Ver by Pablo Escoto Luna

by :Ela Bittencourt
10-15-2020
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Altered States: Latin American Highlights from the FICValdivia International Competition

FICValdivia's International Competition has stood out in the past few years that I've been following it for jettisoning in the main slate the distinction between fiction and nonfiction. Also for championing bold cinematic language and storytelling that don't rush to...

Still from the archive-based film, THE PINK INDIAN AGAINST THE INVISIBLE BEAST: NOEL NUTELS’ BATTLE

by :Ela Bittencourt
10-13-2020
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Olhar de Cinema / Curitiba International Film Festival: Unveiling the Archives

This year, the international film festival Olhar de Cinema, based in Curitiba, Brazil, presents a number of fascinating archive-based films. Among them, there is Fakir, by Helena Ignez, The Pink Indian Against the Invisible Beast: Noel Nutels' Battle, by Tiago Carvalho,...

Still from Márta Mészáro's DON'T CRY, PRETTY GIRLS!, part of Berwick Film Festival

by :Ela Bittencourt
10-6-2020
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Essential Cinema: Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival

Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival has followed most film festivals this year in moving its edition online. Barring some geo-blocking, about which one can never be entirely sure, it's a great opportunity for viewers who may not have been...

Still from Ephraim Asili's The Inheritance (2020)

by :Ela Bittencourt
09-17-2020
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TIFF: Radical Experience to Knowledge in 40 Years a Prisoner and The Inheritance

Tommy Oliver's 40 Years a Prisoner and Ephraim Asili's The Inheritance, which both premiered at TIFF, in the Documentary and Wavelengths sections, center on the Black American revolutionary experience. Both films use rich archival footage, albeit deployed differently, in a more...

Malgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert's Never Gonna Snow Again

by :Ela Bittencourt
09-13-2020
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TIFF Diary: Malgorzata Szumowska’s Never Gonna Snow Again and Emma Seligman’s Shiva Baby

Magdalena Szumowska, the Polish born filmmaker who's been making movies since the late 1990s, and Emma Seligman, the American director whose debut feature was slated for SXSW and played at TIFF, have both delivered two of probably most jarringly memorable...

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