In a dystopian Turkey, the Government begins installing new TV antennas to homes throughout the country. Mehmet, a superintendent at a crumbling apartment complex, has to supervise the installation of the new antenna. When the broadcast it transmits begins to menace the residents of the apartment complex. Mehmet must seek out the spiteful entity. …
2019 Fantastic Fest Review: First Love’s Intense Journey
A young boxer and a call girl get caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme over the course of one night in Tokyo.
2019 Fantastic Fest Review: “Jojo Rabbit” Sticks The Landing
A young boy in Hitler’s army finds out his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in their home.
African Diaspora Int’l Film Festival Review: An Alleged Altercation On A Bus Leads To The Murder Of An African Refugee By A Police Officer In “Otomo”
The true story of Otomo, a black man seeking work and asylum in the German city of Stuttgart. However, all he finds is racism, police trouble, and his final destiny.
African Diaspora Int’l Film Festival Review: “Black N Black” Offers An In-Depth Look At The Divide Between African Immigrants And African Americans
“Black N Black” is a documentary that explores the relationship between African Americans and African immigrants in the United States.
African Diaspora International Film Festival Review: A Relationship Between An Atheist And A Muslim Ends Over A Conflict Of Beliefs In “Ben & Ara”
Religious and cultural tensions escalate when an African Islamic woman has an affair with an agnostic man.
African Diaspora Int’l Film Festival Review: A Young Chef Is Inspired To Leave His Small Village In Morocco To Become The Best In “Tazzeka”
Growing up in the Moroccan village of Tazzeka, Elias learned the secrets of traditional Moroccan cuisine from his grandmother who raised him. Years later, meeting a top Paris chef and a young woman named Salma inspires him to leave home.
Human Rights Watch Film Festival Review: “No Box For Me: An Intersex Story” Will Challenge The Way You Think About Defining Sexuality
Deborah, 25, and M, 27, are living in bodies that Western medicine — and often society — deems too taboo to discuss publicly. Like an estimated 1.7 percent of people, they were born with variations in their sex characteristics that were different from classical understandings of male or female. For M, growing up intersex …
Dances With Films Film Festival Review: “Street Ships” Gives Short Films A Bad Name
Life-long neighbors Alex and Jenna turn an otherwise ordinary childhood into a life of fantastical journeys with their imaginations. Toy blocks and castles give way to first cars and street ships as the two learn the bigger they allow themselves to dream, the better they cope with whatever life brings.