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Film   -   Jun 08, 2025 Ancestral Visions of the Future | OBSCURAE @ SXSW London
Ancestral Visions of the Future | OBSCURAE @ SXSW London

Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese wants to talk in feeling - if you're ready to listen.

by Umnia El-Neil
Film   -   Jun 07, 2025 Plainclothes: All the things we’re not allowed to have | OBSCURAE @ SXSW London
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.

by Umnia El-Neil
Film   -   Jun 07, 2025 Paradise Records | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
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.

by Michel Abdulaziz
Film   -   Jun 07, 2025 Love and Rage: Munroe Bergdorf | OBSCURAE @ SXSW London
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.

by Umnia El-Neil
Film   -   Jun 07, 2025 Deep Cover: A New Genre is born | OBSCURAE @ SXSW London
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.

by Umnia El-Neil
Film   -   Jun 07, 2025 The Scout | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
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.

by Michel Abdulaziz
Film   -   Jun 06, 2025 Birthright | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa
Birthright | OBSCURAE at TriBeCa

Inheritances Writ in Mud and Chlorine - Birthright is a Thrilling Battle of the Generations.

by Michel Abdulaziz
Film   -   Jun 06, 2025 Slumlord Millionaire: Housing is a Human Right
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.

by Michel Abdulaziz
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