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The Blue Trail (O Último Azul) (2025)
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I’m not sure what I expected from feature from Brazilian director Gabriel Mascaro. For some reason I thought it had elements of magical realism, probably something to do with the image above (that I obviously didn’t look at closely).
Continue readingMalu (2024)
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Although this is a strong ensemble piece about three generations of women, it felt like it came in a long line of films that I had seen over the last few weeks about women who are essentially damaged.
Continue readingToll (2023)
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Like Crossing, Toll looks at queerness through the eyes of the non-queer family members who alienate and marginalise them.
Continue readingCidade; Campo (2024)
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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)).
Continue readingChildren Do Not Play War (VR) (2019)
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Charcoal (Carvão) (2022)
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Pictures of Ghosts (Retratos Fantasmas) (2023)
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Kleber Mendonça Filho takes us on a slow, self referential meander through his home suburb of Recife in Brazil and the history of its cinemas.
Continue readingMadalena (2021)
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A worthy but meandering elegy to the many transgender people murdered in Brazil, the highest per capita in the world, according to the end credits.
Continue readingLos Silencios (2018)
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Unrolling like a gentle dream, Beatriz Seigner’s Los Silencios takes the serious subject of the displacement of Colombian refugees and tells it in a lyrical and ethereal way. Continue reading
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