Armand starts out with a good and interesting premise. A single mother, Elizabeth (Renate Reinsve who was in The Worst Person in the World which has a similar vibe to this film) is called into her six-year-old son Armand’s primary school for a meeting.
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a documentary quite like this before, where the subject is the filmmaker and the act of making the film is one of such courage.
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If you like a documentary that is about giving the subjects agency in how their story is told, then Flathead is not for you.
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Like Crossing, Toll looks at queerness through the eyes of the non-queer family members who alienate and marginalise them.
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Directors Micheal Dweek and Gregory Kershaw take us into the sparse remote world of Argentine gauchos (and one gaucha).
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Ray Argall introduced this showing of his personal collection of films from the 80s that he has been restoring.
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Juliana Rojas likes to blend contemporary Brazilian social critique with the surreal and supernatural, as evidenced by her queer werewolf musical (Good Manners (2018)).
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This one is a bit of a weepy. I went in thinking it was about off grid living and homeschooling – raising children in nature – but it’s actually as much about grief.
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You will understand the irony of the title in the closing scenes of this acerbic, stylised allegory of colonisation.
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