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Fior Di Latte | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Fiore Di Latte punctures wacky with doses of real, and Charlotte Ercoli uses the madness like an easel to paint a woefully accurate portrait of addiction.
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Twinless | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Twinless is slightly sorta like Vertigo, on poppers, running on the energy of an off the walls 2000s movie laced with the spirit of a Hitchcockian thriller.
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Esta Isla is A Grueling Love Letter to Puerto Rico | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Esta Isla films in the dialect of Tropical Realism, austere and surreal, a bit verité: it makes no attempts at hiding because it holds itself plain to see.
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Ancestral Visions of the Future | OBSCURAE @ SXSW London
Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese wants to talk in feeling - if you're ready to listen.
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Plainclothes: All the things we’re not allowed to have | OBSCURAE @ SXSW London
With a grounded plot and beautifully integrated experimental elements, Carmen Emmi spins gold.
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Paradise Records | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Paradise Records is of a lost artifact type, when punky, punchy storytelling was the rage. It's tone more flaccid in spaces, its pace bogged, trips on jokes better off left on the cutting room floor, yet the heart is there and the ride lively.
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Love and Rage: Munroe Bergdorf | OBSCURAE @ SXSW London
A tender and compassionate profile of one of the most influential trans voices in the UK, who has been so disrespected by her country, and yet has continued to thrive on the global stage.
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Deep Cover: A New Genre is born | OBSCURAE @ SXSW London
A wild and surprising (and heavily British) action comedy of the absurd from Director Tom Kingsley is a treat - and made on a budget that is surely a recession indicator.
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The Scout | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Paula Gonzalez-Nasser brings her background as a professional location scout for a metatextual meditation on the arrangements we make of the places that we live in. Her camera stoic, purposeful, and never once without a point to what it's capturing.
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Birthright | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Inheritances Writ in Mud and Chlorine - Birthright is a Thrilling Battle of the Generations.
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Slumlord Millionaire: Housing is a Human Right
Across five boroughs, the film passes through the lives of these everyday New Yorkers, their hurdles examined and felt, deeply, out through the screen.
Sweet and Short
Sweet and Short: "OCD and Chips" (Dir. Joe Borg)
In this brilliantly down to earth and hilarious mini-mockumentary, we peek into the disrupted but colourful life of a woman working a chip shop with OCD