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Otilia Portillo Padua Creates A Cosmic Network With Daughters Of The Forest

By Bobby LePire | April 2026

Otilia Portillo Padua is a documentarian who focuses on the relationship between humans and the environment. Her latest feature, Daughters Of The…

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Otilia Portillo Padua is a documentarian who focuses on the relationship between humans and the environment. Her latest feature, Daughters Of The Forest,...

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SXSW 2026 FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW! Directed by Otilia Portillo Padua and lensed by Martín Boege, Daughters Of The Forest is a haunting, lyrical documentary...

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SXSW FILM FESTIVAL 2026 REVIEW! In Mickey, Dano Garcia chronicles the uphill battle avant-garde artist Mickey Cundapí, who goes by Mis$ Mickey, faces...

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In her documentary, Traces of Home, director Colette Ghunim turns the camera inward to uncover the histories her family never fully talked about. What...

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TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2025 REVIEW! At the outset of writer-director Karla Badillo's Oca, a young nun is dispatched on a spiritual and literal...

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PBS POV PREMIERE! Directed by Isabel Alcántara Atalaya and Alfredo Alcántara, The Age of Water investigates a small Mexican town’s struggle with...

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Some documentaries rescue greatness from obscurity. Vincent Pun's El Chino is one such documentary. It's the story of Bill Wong, a Chinese-American...

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NOW IN THEATERS! Our modern-day parables often take the form of animation. Tania Vincent and Ricard Cussó's A Sloth Story is a whimsical tale about a...

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Sometimes, we hold on to things for so long that we don't know when to let them go. Cristobal Abugaber's short film, The Perfect Tomato, is about a small...

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From the opening moments of his short film Business Trip (Viaje de Negocios), Mexican filmmaker Gerardo Coello Escalante takes us on a Hitchcockian trip of...

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