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Polish dir Jan Komasa: ANNIVERSARY is “social apocalypse”, Writer Lori Rosene-Gambino: it’s “political zeitgeist” Diane Lane is matriarch, Kyle Chandler patriarch in Twilight Zone/It Can Happen soon – Dylan O’Brien is scary convert @Lionsgate In U.S. theaters
www.lionsgate.com/movies/anniv...

COEXISTENCE, MY ASS Canadian director Amber Fares shadowed comedienne Noam Shuster Eliassi over 5 tumultuous years as she develops comedy peace activism in Israel for entertaining and emotionally insightful documentary. My review: mavensnest.net/Lilithflicks... Now @ifccenter.bsky.social Nov +cities

QUEENS OF THE DEAD Debut director Tina Romero draws on her father’s legacy with drag queens, comedy and contemporary flair @Shudder @ifcfilms Now @ifccenter.bsky.social with Q &As
My review: mavensnest.net/TFF2025Women...
www.ifccenter.com/films/queens...

RIVER OF GRASS

Inspired by words & environmental activism of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Debut Director native Floridian Sasha Wortzel’s RIVER OF GRASS explores history of threats, Indigenous living, working, saving Everglades 10/24 @DCTVny Firehouse Cinema with Q&As Nov OH & FL
www.riverofgrassfilm.com

MISTRESS DISPELLER A film by Elizabeth Lo

MISTRESS DISPELLER Director HK/US Elizabeth Lo’s intense cinema verité look at adultery triangle with solver of Chinese society in PTSD from 1-child policy and housing $ crisis increasing loneliness Via OscilloscopeLabs Now @IFCCenter 10/24 @laemmle then US+
mistressdispeller.oscilloscope.net

LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS - NewFest

@NewFest LESBIAN SPACE PRINCESS Debut Aussie feature filmmakers/partners Emma Hough Hobbs (animation) & Leela Varghese (musical comedy) create LOL syfy wokeness (hints: look for BABADOOK reference & listen for Richard Roxburgh) Streams thru 10/21 Theaters 10/31 VOD 11/18
newfest.org/events/lesbi...

Closer @NewFest was knock out! Dir David Michôud’s CHRISTY co-writer Mirrah Foulkes bring true story to vivid life w/riveting ensemble Sydney Sweeney, Ben Foster, Merritt Wever+ makes us see how domestic abuser controls boxer champ Theaters 11/7 Black Bear Pics
blackbearpictures.com/film-and-tv/...

A NIGHT LIKE THIS (Virtual Exclusive) - NewFest

@NewFest A NIGHT LIKE THIS Alexander Lincoln & Jack Brett Anderson are very worth watching in debut director Liam Calvert's London that goes on & on. Also look for David Bradley’s non-Dickensian cameo
Streaming thru 10/21
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TRUTH & TREASON Writer/Director Matt Whitaker expands his documentary on Mormon teen defier of Nazi rule Helmuth Hübener in 1941 with truths from BBC & banned books and buddies’ help. Rupert Evans plays his Gestapo nemesis in Hamburg. Now theaters @angel
www.angel.com/tickets/trut...

AFTER ALL - Erika Christensen and Penelope Ann Miller enliven sophomore director Kerstin Karlhuber’s personalization of Jack Bryant’s Texas Gothic story with flashbacks Now in Theaters VOD 11/7
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Wr/Dir Elliott Hasler’s VINDICATION SWIM is like sequel to Trudy Ederle bio-pic “ Young Woman & Sea” about Brit Mercedes Gleitze in 1927 outfits also battling, sexism, snobs, press & beautiful ocean across REAL Eng Channel. Opens 10/17 @quadcinema
https:freestyledigitalmedia.tv/film/vindication-swim

Köln 75 :: Zeitgeist Films Keith Jarrett’s legendary performance in January 1975 nearly didn’t happen. Based on a true story, Köln 75 follows how the concert was conceived and orchestrated by the efforts of a t...

KÖLN 75 wr/dir Ido Fluk enjoyably re-lives frantic teen launch of jazz impresario Vera Brandes (lively Mala Emde) career with legendary Keith Jarrett (John Magaro) concert 10/17 @ifccenter 10/24 @laemmletheatres @zeitgeistfilms @kinolorber
zeitgeistfilms.com/film/koeln-75

IF THAT MOCKINGBIRD DON’T SING Astoria, Queens’ Sadie Bones wrote/directed 1st movie at age 18 – Amusing, practical JUNO/”Teen Mom” for Gen Zers with talented cast Now VOD via @Tribeca Films
tribecafilm.com/tribecafilms

IN TRANSIT - NewFest

IN TRANSIT @NewFest Writer Alex Sarrigeorgiou stars as model and director Jaclyn Bethany quietly explore the beauty and revelations of “the female gaze” through Jennifer Ehle’s artist eyes’ portrait Streams thru 10/21
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IF YOU ARE AFRAID YOU PUT YOUR HEART IN YOUR MOUTH AND SMILE - NewFest

@NewFest IF YOU ARE AFRAID YOU PUT YOUR HEART IN YOUR MOUTH AND SMILE - Debut Austrian Writer/Director Marie Luise Lehner puts daughter of deaf single mom in new high school w/allies vs Mean Girls Theater 10/19, streams til 10/21
newfest.org/events/ifyou...

WE ARE FAHEEM & KARUN - NewFest

@newfest Dir @IamOnir Onir (India) co-writer @mirza_fawzia Fawzia Mirza (Canada)’s WE ARE FAHEEM & KARUN intro’s a lonely Indian Hindu border guard to a hunky Muslim Kashmiri yet realistically sparks fly in not just romance 10/17 w/Q&A; streams thru 10/21
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SUMMER'S CAMERA - NewFest

SUMMER’S CAMERA @NewFest S. Korean debut director Divine Sung – tender, charming story of high school first love while girl discovers undeveloped photos on her late dad’s Nikon and the who he is. E Coast Prem today, Streams thru 10/21
newfest.org/events/summe...

NIGHT IN WEST TEXAS - NewFest

@newfest Director @deb_esquenazi NIGHT IN WEST TEXAS doc intimately follows @innocencetexas effort to exonerate gay Apache James Reyos’ 40 yr fight for support & the impact this has had on his life: 10/17 in theater w/Q&A, streams thru 10/21
newfest.org/events/night...
www.nightinwesttexas.com

@amongneighbors American dir @yoavpotash adroitly, emotionally counters rising conservative nationalism that whitewashes past with last victims & witnesses to during/after Holocaust in Poland. Now NYC 10/17 LA then nat’l Via @8.above
My review: mavensnest.net/Lilithflicks...
www.amongneighbors.com

100 METERS - GKIDS Films

100 METERS Director Kenji Iwaisawa insightfully adapts Uoto’s 5-vol manga with rotoscoped anime of track competitors over 10 yrs from jr high on through their zen analysis of training, running, losing, winning during 10 seconds @GKIDSfilms 10/12 theaters
gkids.com/films/100-meters/

Mr. K - International Films - Independent Films | Music Box Films After spending the night in a remote hotel, Mr. K (Crispin Glover) is stuck in a claustrophobic nightmare when he discovers that he can't leave the building.

MR K Norway’s Tallulah Schwab moves Crispin Glover's magician thru colorful allegorical mob psychology No Exit hotel inspired by Kafka, Carroll, Murakami with terrific international cast Now @ifccenter , L.A. @am_cinematheque , 10/24 Chicago @musicboxfilms
www.musicboxfilms.com/film/mr-k/

In Writer/Director @HarrisDickinson debut URCHIN, Frank Dillane completely embodies the no-easy-answers struggles of homeless addict in London escaping into dreams Envisioned by Canadian DP Josée Deshaies via @PicEntFilms 1-2 Special 10/3 NYC @IFCCenter L.A. More 10/17

Jakubowicz's SOUL OF A NATION
Confusing edit contextual look at Israeli politics pre/post 10/7/23 w/news clips, interviews w/activists, non/elected figures esp secular women. If you know nothing re: Israeli politics Review mavensnest.net/Lilithflicks...
greenwichentertainment.com/film/soul-of...

Ned Crowley’s violent KILLING FAITH is post-pandemic philosophizing/ religious hysteria transposed to dark Olde AZ w/Guy Pearce’s ether-soused Dr-widower, DeWanda Wise as freed slave mom of mysterious girl vs Bill Pullman’s wily preacher @shout_studios
www.shoutstudios.com/killing-faith

For 10/7 terror-versary Dir Barry Avrich’s ROAD BETWEEN US: ULTIMATE RESCUE is like post-apocalyptic action flick of kibbutz family’s heroism helping victims, wounded soldiers "Grandpa's coming to save us" Melbar Entertainment Grp My review: mavensnest.net/Lilithflicks...
www.theroadbetweenus.com

The Ice Tower Jeanne, a 15-year-old orphan, witnesses the shoot for a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen, and she becomes fascinated by its star, Cristina, an actress who is just as mysterious and all...

ICE TOWER: Director/Co-writer Lucile Hadzihalilovic delves into psychology of H C Anderson’s “Snow Queen” as Hitchcockian Blonde Obsession by teen girl for Marion Cotillard's "Frozen" film star with theremin-like theme
Now in theaters @ifccenter @yellowveilpictures
www.theicetowermovie.com

Based on true story, dir Neeraj Ghaywan’s 2nd feature HOMEBOUND, India’s Oscar entry, is moving portrait of long-time close friends Muslim & Dalit young men who want to get ahead & help their families. At 150+ N Am theaters @moviegoers_entertainment
moviegoers.co.uk/homebound

35 YRS AFTER Last day of free streaming @germanfilmoffice for Sibylle Schonemann's vivid authoritarian lesson LOCKED-UP TIME (1990) as 5 yrs after her Kafka-esque arrest, trial, imprisonment she confronts GDR "following orders" bureaucrats most still on the job
wiedervereinigung.goethe-on-demand.de

The Summer Book - International Films - Independent Films | Music Box Films On a Finnish island, young Sophia explores the natural world with her grandmother (Glenn Close) in a delicate account of growing up and growing old.

Tove Jansson’s Finnish classic nature celebration SUMMER BOOK is adapted to English by wr Robert Jones/dir Charlie McDowell to focus on grief-recovering family led by Glenn Close’s charismatic Grandma @musicboxfilms now U.S. theaters
www.musicboxfilms.com/film/the-sum...