films
Review: “When They See Us”
June 7, 2019New York detectives beat five teen boys of color, starved them, and finally coerced them into giving false video testimony and written statements for a crime they didn’t commit.
Read moreChelsea Manning and Rohingya Muslims featured in new documentaries
May 29, 2019The film "XY Chelsea" is often tragic in tone, showing the pervasive surveillance ominously growing in the U.S.
Read more‘Occupied Cinema’: An audacious Serbian documentary about the Occupy Movement
May 14, 2019If “audacity in cinema” is the theme of this year’s South East European Film Festival, then this is among the 14th annual SEEfest’s most audacious films.
Read moreL.A. Asia Pacific Filmfest commemorates a memorable Maori moviemaker
May 10, 2019A terrific biopic about Maori moviemaker Merata Mita, the first Pacific Islander woman to direct a feature film.
Read more‘El Gato Montés’: A gypsy, bandit, and torero walk into a bullring
May 8, 2019This provocative production about a ménage à trois is one of LA Opera’s most outrageous undertakings.
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