©Courtesy of Tribeca Festival Our everyday lives are made up of countless small moments that slowly gather over time. Most of them are forgotten because they seem ordinary and insignificant. Lacking the drama of major events, they fade almost as soon as they occur. In great films such as Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days” (2023) Jim…
The gaze of second-generation immigrants captures the plight of its forbearers. This is what film director Karla Murthy projects in her documentary The Gas Station Attendant. Through the use of footage from home videos and old recorded tapes, the director and Emmy-nominated producer who began her career working for several news programs on PBS, finds…
© Still from the film by DoP: Rosa Hadit Hernández © Colectivo Colmena Sexual assault remains one of the most urgent and complex issues facing young people today. Despite increased awareness, it is still shrouded in silence, confusion, and contradiction. More troubling still, it often arises not from the outside, but within spaces meant to feel…
©Courtesy of Film Movement Kids always pick up on more than their parents realize. That is especially true of eleven-year-old Fuki Okita. She fully understands that her father Keiji is dying from cancer and that her mother Utako is dealing with it badly. In fact, she often rather awkwardly acknowledges these facts to her increasingly…
Check out more of our YouTube Channel Matthew Schuchman : In the early 90s, while at the video store with his friends who wanted to rent Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, Matthew asked the clerk if they had any copies of Naked Lunch available. A film buff from an early age, he would turn…
Just imagine how today’s media and politicians would have reacted to the Allied Normandy landing. On D-Day, June 6, 1944, American forces suffered 6,000 casualties, out which 2,500 were confirmed fatalities. That was simply to land on and hold the beaches of Normandy. Almost an entire year a fighting still lay ahead, including the…
©Courtesy of Netflix The most compelling music documentaries don’t thrive on just hit singles or chart peaks. Like the artists themselves, the biographical projects flourish on journeys of survival, reinvention and the lasting bond between an artist and the generations who grow up listening to their music. That’s certainly true with Netflix’s three-part docuseries, Kylie,…
©Courtesy of Paramount Pictures Millions of truckers and cabbies can’t be wrong. They believe St. Christopher medals provide some protection for travelers. They probably have in mind more conventional dangers, like bad weather and reckless drivers. However, a young couple adopting the nomad lifestyle need its defense against an ancient supernatural evil that preys on…
Check out more of our YouTube Channel 𝐋𝐮𝐢𝐬 𝐏𝐞𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐧 is a Director, Actor, Founder and Film Festival Director of the International Film Festival Manhattan, New York, now in its 13th edition, proudly promoting Filipino, Asian, Scandinavian and European films and presenting them in New York. 👉https://iffmusa.com/ A winner of numerous awards as a director and…
Pedro Almodóvar’s Bitter Christmas (Amarga Navidad) was presented at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival. The theme is strong, but its realisation is weak. The 24th motion picture of the filmmaker from La Mancha is a cynical study on the motives of creation. Pedro Almodóvar’s tragicomedy navigates in the territory of metacinema, as we’re initially introduced…
©Courtesy of The Cannes Film Festival Check out more of Our YouTube Channel 𝐋𝐮𝐢𝐬 𝐏𝐞𝐝𝐫𝐨𝐧 is a Director, Actor, Founder and Film Festival Director of the International Film Festival Manhattan, New York, now in its 13th edition, proudly promoting Filipino, Asian, Scandinavian and European films and presenting them in New York. 👉https://iffmusa.com/ A winner of…
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