In Daughter of a Lost Bird, Brooke Swaney sensitively documents an Indigenous woman reconnecting with her birth mother and coming to terms with how colonial violence has shaped her life.
Film Reviews
Here you will find every film review we've written. These include: festival films, new releases, and older films.
The Third Wife Review: A beautiful and bleak portrayal of patriarchy
Ash Mayfair’s The Third Wife tells the story of a teenage girl whose family marries her off in nineteenth-century Vietnam.
Review: Maxine Peake shines in Fanny Lye Deliver’d (The Delivered)
Maxine Peake leads Thomas Clay’s refreshing genre film, Fanny Lye Deliver’d (The Delivered in the US), about a woman’s emancipation.
Found footage gets a showcase at the Unnamed Footage Film Festival
This year’s Unnamed Footage Film Festival was a 24-hour livestream that illuminated the best and worst traits of the found footage genre.
Highlights from BFI Flare 2021, from No Ordinary Man to Boy Meets Boy
Orla Smith runs down the best films of BFI Flare 2021 and the themes that they kept coming back to.
Sublet Review: Two generations of gay men meet in Tel Aviv
In Sublet, a New York Times travel writer visiting Tel Aviv strikes up a friendship with a younger gay man whose apartment he’s subletting.