THE CURRENTS In her 3rd film Argentine dir Milagros Mumenthaler delves dreamily into psyche of expressive Isabel Aimé González Sola’s successful artist, wife, mother falls into Nth degree imposter syndrome @filmlinc.bsky.social 6/6 @laemmle +cities via @kinolorber.com kinolorber.com/film/the-cur...

FORASTERA Spanish debut dir Lucía Aleñar Iglesias expands her short w/DP Agnès Piqué Corbera, Italian Editor Paola Freddi & Swedish composer Anna van Hausswolf- family grief morphs into ghostliness on sunny Majorca @filmforumnyc.bsky.social , CA DC + GhopperFilm grasshopperfilm.com/film/foraste...

WITH HASAN IN GAZA: Tracing memories, director Kamal Aljafari finds his video tapes from touring his distant relatives’ and lost friends’ Gaza in Nov 2001 with a guide – that’s pre-Hamas take-over and tunnels @Metrograph more cities June & July @cinemaguild.com www.cinemaguild.com/theatrical/w...

PROMISED SKY French-Tunisian dir Erige Sehiri brings lost girl into lives of 3 very different strongly portrayed SubSaharan women hoping for Tunis future but finding no security From NY African Film Fest 6/12 @filmforumnyc.bsky.social 6/19 CA @filmmovement.bsky.social filmmovement.com/promised-sky

GERMAINE ACOGNY - THE ESSENCE OF DANCE 5/26 w/Q&A NY African Film Fest @bamfilm.bsky.social Brooklyn FilmAfrica German dir Greta-Marie Becker blends bio of 80+yr dancer/choreographer/teacher as she demonstrates modern+tradition technique at l'École des Sables, Senegal www.bam.org/film/2026/fi...

ASK E JEAN dir Ivy Meeropol (bio-doc on DJT mentor Roy Cohn) effectively straddles flamboyance of Carroll’s & DJT’s intersected lives in gonzo journalism of flashy 1996 Manhattan to post #MeToo candor in court 5/22 @ifccenter.bsky.social 5/29 CA more June @abramorama.com www.askejeanfilm.com

FORGE Debut wr/dir Jing Ai Ng suspensefully plots Miami art crime w/Andie Ju & Brandon Soo Hoo as Chinese-American hustlers and Kelly Marie Tran as their FBI nemesis suspicioned over dim sum. 5/22 @QuadCinema w/Q &A; LA, Glendale CA; 5/30 FL @utopiamovies utopiadistribution.com/film/4138/Fo...

Nepali wr/dir Nani Sahra Walker’s debut narrative SHAKTI reveals struggles of (perceived) low caste women to get justice for abuse in Japanese DP Keiko Nakahara’s beautiful-looking Kathmandu w/credits Nepali rapper Dmriti’s song 5/22 VOD via Buffalo8 buffalo8.com/project/shak...

For wr/dir Rowan Athale as kid in UK, Brit-Yemeni boxing champ Prince Naseem "Naz" Hamed (Amir El-Masry) was GIANT in '90s But early yrs w/Irish boxing trainer Brendan Ingle (Pierce Brosnan) are heart of drama beyond ethnic pride Theaters/VOD 5/22 @vertical_film www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPTA...

Spanish animator Alberto Vázquez’s unrated DECORADO takes you behind what really goes on in land where Acme aka Alma -Almighty Limitless MegaCorp Agency controls cartoon animals – can mouse lovers lead a rebellion to find a way out? In theaters @gkids.com gkids.com/films/decora...

WIZARD OF THE KREMLIN Director/co-writer Olivier Assayas brings together international ensemble to chillingly embody & expand Giuliano da Empoli’s roman à clef tracing 20 yr rise & power of current Tsar thru his behind-the-throne Rasputin In theaters @vertical_film www.vert-ent.com/library/the-...

COTTON QUEEN 5/24 w/Q&As NY African Film Fest @bamfilm.bsky.social Brooklyn FilmAfrica Sudanese Dir Suzannah Mirghani brought together talented 3-generation refugee cast to reveal females’ conflicts, culture, dreams & magic realism in Sudan colonial/re-colonizing fields www.bam.org/film/2026/fi...

Opens 5/15 @filmforumnyc.bsky.social In AGATHA'S ALMANAC director Amalie Atkins & female crew over 6 yrs-round closely glean her uber-practical aunt’s experience from 90 yrs living on her 54 acre traditional Manitoba farm FYI call your elder relative! Via @IcarusFilms icarusfilms.com/if-agatha

5/17 MISS JOBSON- NY African Film Fest @MayslesCinema Spanish dir Amanda Sans Pantling w/producer/Jamaica neighbor Tammy Hart follow 80+-yr-old lawyer/Rastafarian Diane Jobson friend/legal advisor to Bob Marley & family, defend poorest, revel in female bond & nature www.maysles.org/calendar/nya...

5/15 w/Q&A WOLOBOUGOU (aka Place of Compassionate Birth) at NY African Film Fest @MayslesCinema French dir Camille Varenne intimately follows charismatic midwife/activist/educator Honorine Soma in her Burkina Faso bush clinic & rural rounds over years www.maysles.org/calendar/nya...

5/16 Shorts at NY African Film Fest @MayslesCinema include Botswana-born wr/dir Thato Mwosa’s barely-fictive UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE poignant portrait of African hairdresser settled in US denied asylum despite home violence (being developed into feature film) www.maysles.org/calendar/rec...

5/15 w/Q&As NY African Film Fest opens at @MayslesCinema Wr/Director/Choreographer Irène Tassembedo’s LA TRAVERSÉE (2021, US premiere) imagines a way to encourage Burkina Faso & Nigerian youth not to leave for Europe and fulfill their dreams at home www.maysles.org/calendar/la-...

Thanks NY African Film Fest @filmlinc.bsky.social LACE RELATIONS 2 Austrian dirs Anette Baldauf & Katharina Weingartner, 2 Nigerian dirs Chioma Onyenwe & Joana Adesuwa Reiterer creatively reveal 2 centuries of $$ textile mfg exploitation and suppression of indigenous talent Deserves wide encore!

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BEEN HERE STAY HERE Director David Usui's 2 yrs probing VA’s Tangier Island in Chesapeake Bay, 8 hrs from DC, w/6-generation evangelical families facing faith test as their crab catch dwindles, land sinks & water rises 5/15 w/Q&A @QuadCinema 5/27 @laemmle GrasshopperFilm www.beenherestayhere.com

Bellissimo! Ferzan Özpetek’s DIAMOND co-wr Carlotta Corradi & Elisa Casseri bring 18 Italian actresses to ‘70s atelier team creates costumes- design, sew, dye, etc vs homes not in their control 5/15 @AngelikaFilmNY 5/22 @laemmle @outsiderpictures.bsky.social www.outsiderpictures.us/movie/diamon...

A YARD OF JACKALS Chilean debut writer/director Diego Figueroa scarily delves into how 1970s dictatorship distorted neighbors and history with paranoia and fear - it can happen here too. Now streaming @indieunlimited @indiepix.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=nZXh...

Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi’s SILENT FRIEND magnificent gingko tree watches Anna Atkins-like Luna Wedler-1908; Enzo Brumm & Marlene Burlow-1972; Tony Leung & Léa Seydoux-COVID watching her 5/8 @filmlinc.bsky.social Q&As @AngelikaFilmNY 5/15 + @12special.bsky.social silentfriend.film/buy-tickets

Director S Florida native Xander Robin joins 10 nights gov’t PYTHON HUNT w/Everglades guides, amateur herpetologists, out-of-towners, and locals who blame humans more than pythons for wildlife kills 5/8 @AngelikaFilmNY 5/15 TX and CA then more cities @oscope pythonhunt.oscilloscope.net

French director Arnaud Desplechin’s TWO PIANOS sets off electric chemistry in trios w/Charlotte Rampling a dominating mentor over pianist prodigy hunky François Civil pining for his best friend’s lovely blonde wife & son @AngelikaFilmNY 5/8 + cities @kinolorber.com kinolorber.com/film/two-pia...

CASA GRANDE female created/directed/Spanish bilingual CA family streaming series that is to “Yellowstone” like “Big Valley” was to “Bonanza” ramps up evil & violence w/Lou Diamond Phillips for conclusion in theaters Dir Juan Pablo Arias Munoz @ESXentertain www.esxproductions.com

Francesco Sossai’s bemused LAST ONE FOR THE ROAD takes 2 mid-age ex-crooks sloshed in nostalgia & legends around his Veneto home turf mentors architect grad in drink & dream 5/1 @ifccenter.bsky.social @filmlinc.bsky.social 5/8 @laemmle.com + @musicboxfilms.com www.musicboxfilms.com/film/the-las...

OUR LAND (Nuestra Tierra) Director Lucrecia Martel’s 1st doc expansively examines Argentine history vs Indigenous thru prism of 1 murder trial My review: mavensnest.net/OurLand.html 5/1 @filmforumnyc.bsky.social & SF 5/8 LA May/June more cities @strandreleasing strandreleasing.com/films/our-la...

MISTURA Inspired by family stories of '60s Lima Peruvian wr/dir Ricardo de Montreuil celebrates diverse cuisine as scorned elite matron Bárbara Mori finds w/aid of Afro-Peru musician César Pudy Ballumbrosio Cinema Village FL 5/8 LA @outsiderpictures.bsky.social www.outsiderpictures.us/movie/mistura/

OMAHA Debut director Cole Webley, debut DP Paul Meyers w/John Magara bring poignant life to Robert Machoian’s road movie portrait of a Midwest dad w/lively kids w/o safety net or where else to ask for help @ifccenter.bsky.social w/Q&As; May 1 L.A. plus more cities @Greenwich_Films omaha.film

FUZE: Director David Mackenzie puts Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Theo James, Saffron Hocking, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Elham Ehsas & Sam Worthington into thrillingly unexpected dangerous settings - Avoid spoilers! In theaters @roadsideattraction.bsky.social & @saban_films roadsideattractions.com/filmography/...

THE MOUNTAIN NZ actress/debut dir/co-wr Rachel House leads 3 11-yr-olds on healing adventure thru Maori culture & landscape of Mount Taranaki in spirit of prod's @taikawaititidaily.bsky.social family films 4/24 L.A. 5/1 NYC more cities @hoperunshigh.bsky.social www.hoperunshighfilms.com/themountain

I SWEAR wr/dir Kirk Jones presents life of John Davidson, Scottish Tourette Syndrome activist overcoming disability into inspiring portrayed by Robert Aramayo – but is difficult to cope in real life, like at the Oscars ceremony, 4/24 Theaters @sonyclassics www.sonyclassics.com/film/iswear/

TWO SEASONS, TWO STRANGERS Japanese wr/dir Sho Miyake brings 2 Yoshiharu Tsuge manga beautifully to life, linked by Korean actress Shim Eun-kyung as writer and water in summer sea & winter snow 4/24 w/director Q&As @Metrograph May more cities @Several_Futures severalfutures.com/films/shomiy...

EAGLES OF THE REPUBLIC exile Egyptian wr/director Tarik Saleh’s thriller trilogy w/star Fares Fares is "Pharoah of Screen" who finds cooperating w/military dictator gets complicated on film & dangerous with dir Cherien Dabis @QuadCinema 4/24 more @CohenMediaGroup cohenmedia.net/product/eagl...

AMRUN is director Fatih Akin’s look at German identity circa 1945 thru screenplay by his late mentor Hark Bohm in a boy's view of his Nazi family with Diane Kruger as aunt rebel farmer on lovely North Sea island 4/17 @quadcinema kinolorber.com/film/amrumnema; 4/24 CA, more cities @kinolorber.com

What’s middle school girl to do in new town where no one cares about your fave plant? Until she gets substitute teacher Judy Geer and a singing younger neighbor. Dir Nicholas Ma’s debut film MABEL,co-writer Joy Goodwin 4/17 @cinema_village Next week VOD @Tribeca films www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSBa...

EARTH DAY Aussie Oscar docu-drama entry WOLVES ALWAYS COME AT NIGHT Dir Gabrielle Brady w/Mongolian crew & co-stars/climate change refugees Davaa & Zaya re-live loss of herd in Gobi desertification, their identity in city 4/17 @filmmovement.bsky.social Plus www.filmmovementplus.com/exclusively-...

NOT ARIEL, SPLASH or MR PEABODY's! Writer/Director Tyler Cornack sez MERMAID “is my absurdist love letter to Florida…horrifying, surreal, and funny.” W/cameos by Tom Arnold, Kevin Dunn, Kevin Nealon, Robert Patrick. In many Florida theaters plus more @utopiamovies mermaid.utopia.film/buy-tickets

With director Aneil Karia & writer Michael Lesslie, Riz Ahmed creates modern noir HAMLET as scion of ruthless South Asian immigrant real estate developers in a crime story @vertical_film Now in theaters www.vert-ent.com/library/hamlet

Israeli expat Nadav Lapid’s YES looks & sounds outrageous leaves nothing to imagination about his feelings vs conduct of post-10/7/23 war and any society that supports anything like it. My 9/10 review: mavensnest.net/Yes.html April/May theaters @kinolorber.com kinolorber.com/film/yes

LIVING THE LAND Chinese wr/dir Ho Meng’s child's view of 4 generations of his farm family over 4 beautiful seasons, but now he understands pressures on women, disabled, and ambitious who left for big cities @filmforumnyc.bsky.social Film Movement April & May + cities filmmovement.com/living-the-l...

BLUE TRAIL Brazilian director Gabriel Mascaro takes 70+ yr old Denise Weinberg rebelling down big beautiful Amazon w/Rodrigo Santoro & Miriam Socarrás like Lynch’s “Straight Story” on boats @dekanalog.bsky.social Now @AngelikaFilmNY LA @NuartTheatre then more cities dekanalog.com/film/the-blu...

JIMMY & THE DEMONS Director Cindy Meehl intimately captures the work & wit of the late cardboard/wood carving sculptor and graphic illustrator James Gremshaw, with his wife Guzzie, as he works on his last masterpiece. Now in theaters @QuadCinema www.jimmyandthedemons.com

Coming to AMC Theaters April 10: Julie Rubio’s revealing & insightful TRUE STORY OF TAMARA DE LEMPICKA & THE ART OF SURVIVAL artist changing her IDs from Warsaw to Russian Revolution to 1920/30’s Paris painting Moderne women & escapes to US+ www.amctheatres.com/movies/the-t...

Ozon’s THE STRANGER is the most magnifique literary adaptation! Period authenticity in B&W, captures Camus & colonialism in Algeria with strong ensemble to really SEE the story & themes. Now @filmlinc.bsky.social @AngelikaFilmNY Next week more @musicboxfilms.com www.musicboxfilms.com/film/the-str...

Dir Jerry Schatzberg’s REUNION (1989) returns! Pinter adapts Uhlman’s autobiographical novel stars Jason Robards in sterling portrait of Nazi rise 1932 My review: mavensnest.net/Lilithflicks... Now @filmforumnyc.bsky.social @RialtoPictures 4/17 in CA, more cities rialtopictures.com/catalogue/re...

Canadian filmmaker Nat Boltt makes her rollicking debut adapting Joy Crowley’s HOLY DAYS w/funny (!) Judy Davis, Miriam Margolyes, Jackie Weaver, Maori boy, & Tami Neilson songs thru NZ scenery. In theaters via @BlueFox_Ent www.bluefoxentertainment.com/movie/detail...

KONTINENTAL ’25 Romanian filmmaker Radu Jude explores guilt over history of gentrification in Cluj, Transylvania thru architectural tour & one woman bailiff’s conscience @filmforumnyc.bsky.social w/taped Q&A @12specialfilms April all U.S. kontinental.film/buy-tickets www.12special.com/kontinental-25

PALESTINE ’36 wr/dir Annemarie Jaci’s 4th feature is historic epic vs Brit colonialism w/multi-generation ensemble of legends/newcomers and meaningful archival integration Via Watermelon Pictures now in many U.S. theaters @watermelon_pics @AngelikaFilmNY www.watermelonpictures.com/films/palest...