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Uýra – The Rising Forest

By Alan Ng | June 2022

I’ve seen my fair share of documentaries. Though some dare to find the relationship between two distinct issues, Juliana Curi brings together…

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I've seen my fair share of documentaries. Though some dare to find the relationship between two distinct issues, Juliana Curi brings together several...

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What if Walt Disney was actually able to build his Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow (EPCOT) and establish its own governance, economy, and...

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A series of roadblocks face a black detective investigating a murder in Paulo Nascimento's thriller, Breathless (Sem Fôlego). No, this isn't the United...

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In Gustavo Milan's short film, Under the Heavens (Seiva Bruta), a young woman, Marta (Samantha Castillo), is walking along an empty Brazilian highway....

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João Paulo Miranda Maria's Memory House is unlike anything I've seen all year. Taking from Brazilian folklore, filmmaker Miranda Maria follows one...

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SXSW FILM FESTIVAL 2021 REVIEW! The directorial debut of Lázaro Ramos, Executive Order, is based on a stage play. The danger of adapting a work from...

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What Hollywood does so badly is take a decent idea for a movie and screw it up by adding an A, B, but most likely C-list star to it. Now, rather than focus...

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Brazilian filmmaking legend Hector Babenco passed away in 2016. The man directed a dozen features over the span of 40+ years, including the cult...

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A gay bathhouse in Rio De Janeiro is the stage for the gentle human drama of Copa 181. That’s the address men go to for anonymous sex, a stage show, a...

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The struggles of indigenous peoples are not new ones, but rarely specific to just one region. It starts with a group of people who have arrived first in...

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