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Mente Mariposa, directed by Sebastian Ortiz Wilkins is an experimental short film which in 6 minutes, through the art of the metaphor swiftly and briefly traces the near-death experiences of a man and a woman buried alive in coffins. ‘Death’ narrates and compares the life of the humans in the coffins to its garden while… Continue reading An Exhilarating Experience With Mente Mariposa

People’s reaction to trauma is so mind-bogglingly complex and varied, that simplistic reasoning does not necessarily explain or predict it. Some close down, some breakout but clumsily, while some others might just try to go about their daily lives as though nothing happened. Manuela Vasquez’s Lighthouse delves into the reaction a dancer, Paige has to… Continue reading Lighthouse: Important Story Clumsily Told

Covering a small but crucial moment of reforming old bonds between two sisters, Amanda Spencer’s drama Every Grain of Sand, co-written by Toby Osborne, rests in the realm of bitterness, quasi-catharsis and just approaching peace.  In a stifling trailer, Mae (Tara Riggs, of DeKalb Elementary fame) finds her grave resentment explode upon losing the last… Continue reading Every Grain of Sand: Grappling With Different Kinds of Grief

The Big American Dream. Every year people from all over the world migrate to the United States of America to realize their dream of making it big and achieve the success that the rest of the world is insufficient to fulfil. Our Home Here is a 16:53-minute story of the lives of four people, whose… Continue reading Our Home Here: Paying The Cost Of Having A Dream

Andrea Silvestro’s Claire is a complete package of engaging cinema. Claire is a young woman who is coping with the slow fallout of her relationship with her fiancé and struggles to let go of her feelings for him. The story of Claire will lead you through the grief of her character and leave you in… Continue reading Claire: A Fine Example of Melancholy on Cinema

Finally, we get a clown film that clowns instead of scaring unsuspecting children into a paralysing lifelong fear of people who are only trying to make you laugh. Written by Jack George and directed by Jack B. Levy, Stop IT! sneaks in the giggles, satisfying itself with winning the small battles and merrily mocking itself… Continue reading Stop IT!: Stopping Pennywise With Jokes

Filippo Savoia’s Modern Animals does not have a cat-and-mouse chase in it, but it has the unmistakable influence of the Coen brothers’ masterpiece, No Country For Old Men. Co-written by Guillermo Noriega, Modern Animals is a murderous philosophical deliberation on choice, violence and humankind’s capacity for both.  A murder has taken place in a small… Continue reading Modern Animals: Philosophy, Violence and Gossip with A Dash of Style

Things That Fall unfolds at a college, introducing us to Alex who is struggling with his midterm exam. Alex suffers from auditory hallucinations, which quickly borders on unbearable for the viewer in the limited time that the film subjects you to it. Written and directed by Sy Huq, Things That Fall takes the viewer into… Continue reading ‘Things That Fall’: Overriding Limitations to Find Connection

Tony is a film you will remember. A crime drama that is an homage to Scarface, and by extension to The Godfather, with a non-gimmicky look of the 80s and strong performances all around, Tony is a film you will most definitely remember.  There is nary a flaw in the film’s making (written and directed… Continue reading Tony: The Ambitions Of Abuse-Ravaged Teenagers