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  • TIFF Film Diary: Miwa Nishikawa's Under the Open Sky
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    • by:Ela Bittencourt
    • 09-11-2020
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    TIFF Diary: Distant Screens, Shorts and a Stirring Prison Drama from Miwa Nishikawa
  • Carolina Moscoso's VISIÓN NOTURNA
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    • 09-1-2020
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    Festival Gems: VISIÓN NOCTURNA at FidMarseille
  • Girls in Iranian filmmaker Mehrdad Oskouei's Sunless Shadows (2019) which shows a group of girls in a reformatory lying down on a carpet during a meditation session
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    • by:Ela Bittencourt
    • 08-6-2020
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    Girls Are Miracles: Close-Up on Mehrdad Oskouei
  • Still from Agnès Varda's La Pointe Courte (1955)
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    • by:Ela Bittencourt
    • 07-26-2020
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    Connections: Agnès Varda via Ingmar Bergman, or the Other Way Around
  • Still from Natalie Erika James's horror, Relic (2020)
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    • by:Ela Bittencourt
    • 07-15-2020
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    Women Directors Elevate Horror: RELIC (2020)
  • Cow being walked across the bridge in the western FIRST COW
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    • by:Ela Bittencourt
    • 07-14-2020
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    Kelly Reichardt’s glorious revamped western, FIRST COW
  • Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance by Chan-wook Park
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    • by:Ela Bittencourt
    • 11-19-2019
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    Liquid States: Invention in Chan-wook Park’s Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
  • Still from the documentary Seven Years in May by Affonso Uchoa
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    • by:Ela Bittencourt
    • 11-13-2019
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    Written on the Body: New Documentaries from Feras Fayyad and Affonso Uchoa
  • Still from LINA FROM LIMA, a film by the Chilean director María Paz González, one of the women and Global South director at TIFF
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    • 09-1-2019
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    Women and Global South Directors at Toronto International Film Festival TIFF
  • Film Still from Double Blind by Sophie Calle
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    • 08-12-2019
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    Did Sophie Calle Always Rock?
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Cinema & Beyond

Latest Essays by Ela Bittencourt

  1. A still from M. Woods's Bedford Cheese, in which we see a digitally manipulated image that looks like an abstract expressionist painting; the film was in the roundup of Flaherty NYC film program
    5 Apr 2021
    March & April 2021
  2. Still from Itonje Soimer Guttormsen’s Gritt, which played in the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), part of my festival roundup
    3 Mar 2021
    January & February 2021
  3. Image from the group show Nuestra América, at Galeria Luisa Strina, on which I wrote one of the essays for Artforum - the neon image reads, "Oswaldo de Andrade, Volta!" / "Oswaldo de Andrade, Come Back!"
    1 Jan 2021
    November & December 2020
  4. Watercolor from the artist Lucia Nogueira's Inferno, in a solo show at Luisa Strina Gallery, an excerpt
    5 Oct 2020
    September & October 2020
  5. A still from Paulo Rocha's The Green Years, a cinematic drama
    5 Aug 2020
    July & August 2020
  6. Still from Breakwater, an LGBTQ+ short by Cris Lyra
    27 Jul 2020
    Streaming: LGBTQ+ Cinema
  7. Still from Latin American director Paula Gaitán's Light in the Tropics
    14 Mar 2020
    Berlinale Forum and Forum Expanded
  8. Still from Joanna Reposi Garibaldi’s documentary, Lemebel, featured in Latin American Cinema Showcase
    11 Feb 2020
    Neighboring Scenes: Latin American Showcase
  9. RED LIGHT BANDIT (1968) by Rogério Sganzerla
    19 Nov 2019
    Sganzerla’s Gangster Modernity
  10. Still from Luis Ospina's mockumentary A PAPER TIGER
    5 Nov 2019
    The Legacy of Luis Ospina
  11. The Sly Humor of Martín Rejtman: Magic Gloves
    21 Oct 2019
    Sly Humor of Martín Rejtman
  12. Still from Jeannette Muñoz's Puchuncavi in Jeannette Muñoz: Cinema as an Open Letter
    21 Jul 2019
    Jeannette Muñoz: Cinema as an...
  13. Macario by Robert Gavaldón
    25 Apr 2019
    Roberto Gavaldón’s Mortal Visions
  14. Alejandro Fadel’s horror, Murder Me, Monster from Neighboring Scenes Festival
    22 Feb 2019
    Neighboring Scenes 2019
  15. Still from Gabriel Martins and Maurílio Martin's In the Heart of the World premiered at Latin American Movies at International Film Festival Rotterdam
    10 Feb 2019
    Latin American Movies at IFFR
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