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Monday, June 08, 2026

292. US film director Jim Jarmusch's 15th feature film "Father Mother Sister Brother" (2025), based on yet another of his original witty, thoughtful screenplays, this time focusing on contemporary grown-up family relationships

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  Can you toast with tea, though?  --the film's character Jeff (Adam Driver) playing the role of a son, following a toast by his father ...
Saturday, May 30, 2026

291. Italian film director Paolo Sorrentino's 10th feature film "Grace" (La Grazia) (2025) in Italian, based on his original screenplay: Grace is the beauty of doubt

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  God suggests questions and carefully avoids giving answers.  It is not our task to provide answers. It is not the task of science to provi...
Sunday, May 03, 2026

290. The late Hungarian director Béla Tarr's seventh feature film "Kárhozat" (Damnation) (1988): The first of six amazing Tarr films in collaboration with the 2025 Nobel literature prize-winner László Krasznahorkai

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    Director Béla Tarr is someone who "created colors by making them disappear" (a trite reference to his black-and-white films) ...
Sunday, February 08, 2026

289. Iranian director Jafar Panahi's 14th feature film "It was Just an Accident" (Yek tasadof-e sadeh) (2025) (Iran), based on his original screenplay: Can sadistically tortured and dehumanized prisoners forgive their former tormentor in a prison when the tables are turned much later?

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  You killed me a hundred times. Have you forgotten? I am a zombie. One of the living dead.,,,Why did you destroy our lives?               -...
Monday, January 26, 2026

288. Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashivili's second feature film "April" (2024) (in Georgian language) based on her own original screenplay: Can moral beliefs to help the poor and needy override the laws of the land and put one's career in jeopardy?

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Do you understand how laws work? You will have no more patients; you will not have a job. Even if you are not arrested, you will be ruined. ...
Friday, November 28, 2025

287. Indian director Praveen Morchhale's fifth feature film "White Snow" (2025) (India), based on his own original screenplay: More than a film on artistic freedom, a tale of a mother promoting her only son's passion to make films and in the process realizing the power of cinema

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  I n recent months, two feature films set in the Union Territory of Ladakh, (a part of the former Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir) were r...
Wednesday, November 19, 2025

286. Vietnamese film director Pham Ngoc Lan's debut feature film "Cu Li Never Cries" (Cu Li khong bao gio khoc) (2024) (Vietnam), based on his original screenplay, co-authored with Ngiehm Qyunh Trang: Intelligently interplaying time with history, tradition and family life in unified Vietnam as two ordinary Vietnamese lovers decide to get married

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"They say live in the now as much as you can. But the past returns regardless. Un-whole. Fragmented. Existing in pieces of experience....
Sunday, May 04, 2025

285. Dominican film director Nelson Carlos de Los Santos Arias' fourth feature film "Pepe" (2024) built on his own original screenplay: A fascinating, multi-layered cinematic work that uses a "talking" hippopotamus that is dead to present the history of African slaves in the Americas that curiously parallels the forced translocation of the hippo

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  .  W hat an unusual treat this film offers a perceptive and patient viewer! First, it is film is narrated for a substantive length of the ...