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Broken Land

By Alex Saveliev | September 2026

Only after watching filmmaker J.T. Walker’s drama Broken Land did I realize how much I’d missed the weathered, windswept allure of a…

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Only after watching filmmaker J.T. Walker’s drama Broken Land did I realize how much I’d missed the weathered, windswept allure of a slow-moving...

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It's undeniable that people around the world would love to live in America…ok, not all, but most. Chi Tran's short film, VISA, is the story of one young...

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DANCES WITH FILMS 2026 REVIEW! Solidarity is director/writer Dustin Brown’s debut feature, expanded from his short film. Inés (Elpidia Carrillo) is a...

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Andy Warhol made a career out of turning ordinary things into art, and director Lubomir Slivka's Andy Warhol: American Dream pulls off the same trick by...

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Do we look upon our youth as a more innocent time, because we were once as innocent and devoid of cynicism? This is the question at the core of...

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Writer-director-star Alex Cox adapts Nikolai Gogol's novel into a mannered western with Dead Souls. Co-written by Gianni Garko, the story follows the...

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Directed by Erige Sehiri and written by Sehiri, Anna Ciennik, and Malika Cécile Louati, Promised Sky is set in modern-day Tunisia. Marie (Aïssa Maïga),...

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In writer-director Sally Lomidze's short film, Behind the Pose, Masha (Ksena Samborska) is a 16-year-old model from Eastern Europe living in a cramped New...

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We've seen hopeful renditions of the fortunate pilgrim's journey, the immigrant who comes to the land of milk and honey, and in it, washing away the...

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There Was, There Was Not, the feature-length debut of writer-director Emily Mkrtichian, abruptly shifts its focus halfway, or so, through. The first part...

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