A curious trend emerged across several films at this year’s Tribeca Festival: characters retreating to places not just to escape,…
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Best known for her Oscar-nominated documentary short “Sing!” (2001) as well as for the surreal short “End of the Line”…
By now, the image of a couple—or two—retreating into the wilderness for a therapeutic weekend has gone from serious indie…
Coming-of-age stories often cling to the notion that growth is a clean arc: a lesson learned, a heartbreak endured, and…
Isabel Hagen’s “On a String” might be one of the few films where the setup itself already plays like a…
In Jessica J. Rowlands’ directorial debut “Rise,” there’s a quiet certainty to every frame. It’s as if the story was…
Frank Sun‘s short film “We Are Kings” takes place in the era of slow dial-up Internet, as we are introduced…
Director Tolga Karaçelik’s “The Shallow Tale of a Writer Who Decided to Write About a Serial Killer,” at its core,…
“Ripe!” opens with Marty Robbins’ “Love is Blue” playing in the background. As the song rises to a crescendo, a…
“Why do we always need misfortune to reunite?” Gaspard (Andranic Manet) asks his twin sister Louise (Noée Abita) in a…