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Yesterday, 11:59 PM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS 2025 (April 2-April 13) in Festivals

LAURYNAS BAREIŠA: DROWNING DRY/SESES Watched so far: 45 mins. Engaging, yet tantalizingly withholding, the contemporary drama “Drowning Dry”...

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Yesterday, 09:39 PM

Chris Knipp started a thread BLACK BAG (Stephen Soderbergh 2025) in General Film Forum

MICHAEL FASSBENDER IN BLACK BAG STEPHEN SODERBERGH: BLACK BAG (2025) Spies into the warm Stephen Soderbergh's new movie focuses on a...

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03-16-2025, 10:01 PM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread BERLIN & BEYOND Mar. 2025 in Festivals

JOHANNES HEGEMANN, LIV LISA FRIES ANDREAS DRESEN: FROM HILDE, WITH LOVE/IN LIEBE, EURE HILDE (2024) TRAILER An unselconscious resistance...

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03-16-2025, 09:37 PM

Chris Knipp started a thread BERLIN & BEYOND Mar. 2025 in Festivals

BERLIN & BEYOND March 27-31, 2025 San Francisco & Berkeley GENERAL FORUM THREAD LINKS FROM HILDE, WITH LOVE/IN LIEBE, EURE HILDE (Andreas...

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03-16-2025, 09:09 PM

Chris Knipp started a thread BERLIN & BEYOND March 27-31, 2025 in General Film Forum

BERLIN & BEYOND March 27-31, 2025 San Francisco & Bekeley FESTIVAL REVIEWS SECTION 2025 FESTIVAL PROGRAM source OPENING NIGHT FILM John...

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03-15-2025, 06:03 PM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS 2025 (April 2-April 13) in Festivals

JUNE JOÃO PAULA MARQUES: TWO TIMES JOÃO LIBERADA (2024) Gendered exorcism: Paula Tomás Marques uses a fictional history to critique modern...

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03-15-2025, 05:51 PM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS April 2-13, 2025 in General Film Forum

STRANGER (Zhengfan Yang 2024) Chinese The Chinese filmmaker Zhengfan Yang presents a sequence of seven vignettes, motly confined to hotel rooms,...

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03-15-2025, 12:13 PM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS 2025 (April 2-April 13) in Festivals

ZHENGFAN YANG: STRANGER (2024) People come, people go This film, focused on a series of hotel rooms, made me think, perhaps illogically, of...

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03-15-2025, 11:58 AM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS April 2-13, 2025 in General Film Forum

SAD JOKES (Fabian Stumm 2024 A gay German director makes a film about a gay German director in which he plays the lead, experimenting with a mix...

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03-15-2025, 11:54 AM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS April 2-13, 2025 in General Film Forum

KYUKA. BEFORE SUMMER'S END (Kostis Charamountanis 2024) A young Greek provocateur, takes us to a father and his two adult children spending summer...

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03-14-2025, 07:59 PM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS 2025 (April 2-April 13) in Festivals

FABIAN STAMM, JONAS DASSLER IN SAD JOKES FABIAN STUMM: SAD JOKES (2024) A film about a screenplay nobody likes, which might be this one The...

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03-13-2025, 01:59 PM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS 2025 (April 2-April 13) in Festivals

KOSTIS CHARMOUNTANIS: KYUKA. BEFORE SUMMER'S END (2024) Playful squabbling by a Greek island The yacht, the vomiting, the view of spoiled...

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03-12-2025, 11:29 PM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS April 2-13, 2025 in General Film Forum

NO SLEEP TILL (Alexandra Simpson 2024) In this poetic, fiction and real, portrait of Florida as it rolls into a hurricane, Simpson uses her...

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03-12-2025, 06:47 PM

Chris Knipp started a thread DEMOCRACY NOIR (Connie Field 20240 in General Film Forum

TRUMP AND ORBÁN AT THE WHITE HOUSE CONNIE FIELD: DEMOCRACY NOIR (2024) Hungary's dictatorial Viktor Orban regune, a favorite of Donald Trump...

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03-12-2025, 06:31 PM

Chris Knipp started a thread LEILA AND THE WOLVES (Heiny Srour 2024) in General Film Forum

HEINY SROUR: LEILA AND THE WOLVES (1984) AND THE HOUR OF LIBERATION HAS ARRIVED (1974) Arab women in war, and the Gulf struggle, two remarkable...

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03-12-2025, 06:21 PM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS April 2-13, 2025 in General Film Forum

LISTEN TO THE VOICES (Maxime Jean-Baptiste 2024) A visit to French Guyana and family grieving at different stages about a violent murder a...

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03-12-2025, 06:16 PM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS 2025 (April 2-April 13) in Festivals

ALEXANDRA SIMPSON: NO SLEEP TILL (2024) People, Americans, a Florida hurricane, explored visually, eavsdropping on quiet amid chaos In her...

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03-11-2025, 04:57 PM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS 2025 (April 2-April 13) in Festivals

MELRICK DIOMAR MAXIME JEAN-BAPTISTE: LISTEN TO THE VOICES/KOUTÉ VWA (2024) Grieving and revenge in French Guyana Melrick Diomar is a boy...

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03-11-2025, 01:06 AM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS April 2-13, 2025 in General Film Forum

LESSON LEARNED/FEKETE PONT (Bálint Szimler 2024) This is a film about an elementary school in Hungary, a new idealistic teacher, and a...

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03-09-2025, 10:13 PM

Chris Knipp started a thread MICKEY 17 (Bong Joon-ho 2025) in General Film Forum

BONG JOON-HO: MICKEY 17 (2025) Dying as a living Robert Pattinson tries the gritty sci-fi thing again - hoping to get it better than Claire...

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03-09-2025, 11:36 AM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS April 2-13, 2025 in General Film Forum

Five new Filmleaf reviews of ND/NF films are now posted. Go HERE THE ASSISTANT (Wilhelm Sasnal, Anka Sasnal 2025) Polish CYCLEMAHESH (Suhel...

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03-09-2025, 11:27 AM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread 2024 Awards season and the Oscars in General Film Forum

GOV'T ATTACK ON 'NO OTHER LAND' SINCE ITS OSCAR HAS POPULARIZED IT IN ISRAEL From Twitter today: Alon-Lee Green - ألون-لي جرين - אלון-לי...

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03-09-2025, 12:17 AM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS 2025 (April 2-April 13) in Festivals

PAUL MÁTIS, ANNA MESZÖLY in LESSON LEARNED BALINT SZIMLER: LESSON LEARNED/FEKETE PONT (2024) TRAILER Life at school THis is a docudrama,...

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03-08-2025, 06:33 PM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS 2025 (April 2-April 13) in Festivals

NIKOLO GHVINIASHVILI, NIKA GONGADZE, CENTER, IN HOLY ELECTRICITY TATO KOTETISHVILI: HOLY ELECTRICITY (2024) Gems from junk TRAILER This...

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03-08-2025, 12:00 AM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS 2025 (April 2-April 13) in Festivals

SOICHIRO TANAKA AND MINAMI OHBA IN THE HEIGHT OF THE COCONUT TREES THE HEIGHT OF THE COCONUT TREES (Du Jie 2024) Love and suicide and ghosts...

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03-07-2025, 08:47 PM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS 2025 (April 2-April 13) in Festivals

ATIYE ZARE ARANDI: GRAND ME (2024) A child of divorced parents decides who she wants to live with We who have watched Iranian films, maybe...

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03-07-2025, 06:06 PM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS 2025 (April 2-April 13) in Festivals

CYCLEMAHESH (Suhel Banerjee 2024) During Covid a young man became stranded far from home so he rode a bike across the country Cyclemahesh won...

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03-07-2025, 12:13 PM

Chris Knipp started a thread THE EMPIRE (Bruno Dumont 2024) in General Film Forum

BRUNO DUMONT: THE EMPIRE (2024) Dumont is back this time in a Star Wars spoof with more northern French rural oddities With The Empire Bruno...

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03-06-2025, 01:16 PM

Chris Knipp replied to a thread NEW DIRECTORS/NEW FILMS 2025 (April 2-April 13) in Festivals

PIOTR TROJAN, ANDRZEJ KONOPA IN THE ASSISTANT WILHELM AND ANIKA SASNAL: THE ASSISTANT (2025) Surreal life with an early 20th-century inventor ...

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