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Hanna Slak's Not a Word and Ninna Pálmadóttir's Solitude are predictable films about intergenerational connections between lonely people but are elevated by …
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Nabin Subba's film A Road to a Village follows a family in a remote mountainous village in Nepal where the new road to the city brings modernity but threatens …
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Pawo Choyning Dorji’s film The Monk and the Gun is a warm, light-hearted, often funny story of a place shifting from one way of life to another, uncertain …
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Set in the high altitudes of the Tibetan Plateau, against stunning mountains and lakes, Pema Tseden's final film Snow Leopard is a call for empathy, not just …
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From Snow Leopard to The Tundra Within Me to Without Air, these are the best acquisition titles (films still seeking distribution in Canada, the US, and/or the …
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Chris Foggin's film Bank of Dave is a showcase for the great theatre actor Rory Kinnear who proves he can also play a Tom Hanks-esque leading man. Bank of Dave …
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