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The Next Best Picture Podcast – Interview With “By Any Means” Director Elegance Bratton
“By Any Means” is an American historical crime thriller film directed by Elegance Bratton and written by Sascha Penn. The film stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as a young Black FBI agent who teams up with notorious New York City mafia hitman Greg Scarpa (Mark Wahlberg) to investigate the murders of civil rights leaders in Mississippi…
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“THE ECHO CHAMBER”
THE STORY – A love story where the boundaries between presence and absence, care and dependence, desire and control blur until dissolving. Leo and Anne circle each other in an endless cycle of longing and separation, intimacy and distance. They cannot let go, nor break free. Through the rooms, Ava’s voice echoes across time, carrying…
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“HOLY WOOD DUST”
THE STORY – Director Victor Kossakovsky and botanist Stefano Mancuso take us on a unprecedented journey into the life of trees. What happens to a stump the second after a tree is cut down? What does that tree think and feel at that very moment? THE CAST – Stefano Mancusoa THE TEAM – Victor Kossakovsky…
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“OASIS”
THE STORY – When a viral video of a student threatening his classmates surfaces online, the school spirals into escalating violence. Crushed by the pressure of teachers and parents, three outcasts take refuge in a nearby forest. There, play hardens into ritual and pain becomes an escape, until old wounds surface and the boundaries between…
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“AGATA THE WRITER”
THE STORY – Agata travels from Sydney to Sarajevo to write a war novel, but as she gathers material, she is challenged by locals who question her motives. Her creative uncertainty growing, she sees a startling mystery unfold: some provocative and obscene artworks inexplicably vanish. As Agata reads the first chapters of her new novel,…
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“POSSIBLE LOVE”
THE STORY – Four strangers’ paths cross by chance, leading to complex emotional entanglements that challenge their existing relationships and force them to confront uncomfortable truths about love and commitment. THE CAST – Jeon Do-yeon, Sul Kyung-gu, Zo In-sung & Cho Yeo-jeong THE TEAM – Lee Chang-dong (Director/Writer) & Oh Jung-mi (Writer) THE RUNNING TIME –…
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“THE DIFFICULT BRIDE”
THE STORY – In Dhaka, Zaineen prepares for her wedding following beauty rituals and family expectations. However, her body reacts in many unexpected ways. Amongst home remedies, social pressures, and haunting visions, the path to marriage becomes a physical and psychological struggle against what is imposed on her. THE CAST – Zaineen Chowdhury Karim, Rikita…
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“FROM INSIDE OUT – THE ARCHITECTURE OF PETER ZUMTHOR”
THE STORY – Wim Wenders explores the work and philosophy of Pritzker Prize-winning Swiss architect Peter Zumthor in an immersive documentary about the powerful relationship between people and the places they visit, work in or inhabit. Filmed over more than fourteen years and captured through cuttingedge 3D cinematography, the film invites audiences to experience Zumthor’s…
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