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Oct 16, 2024 | 
dmovies.org | Joshua Polanski |Sasha Nathwani |RaMell Ross
Amanda Deering Jones is the producer behind Oscar-nominated Borrowed Time (Andrew Coats and Lou Hamou-Lhadi, 2015), an animated Western short film. She has more than two decades of experience working at Dreamworks Animation, and now at Pixar. She has now finished her directorial debut, the short film Little Mother Lies. It tells the story of Dorie, her sister and her son, delving into the tribulations of alcohol and heroin addiction.
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Oct 15, 2024 | 
dmovies.org | Victoria Luxford |Christopher Greenslate |Sasha Nathwani |RaMell Ross
Chistopher Greenslate is an award-winning director, writer and producer. His directorial debut Saviors (2018) won the jury prize in Madrid, and it received a Raindance nomination and a St Louis nod. Christopher has also worked in television, and he wrote and produced a comic alongside punk-hardcore band Gorilla Biscuits. Christopher’s second film Bananahead premiered this year at the HollyShorts Film Festival.
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Oct 12, 2024 | 
dmovies.org | Joshua Polanski |Sasha Nathwani |RaMell Ross
Amanda Deering Jones’s debut is the best version of a Super Bowl half-time commercial: well crafted, opinionated, and with a direct call-to-action. It’s a short film meant to persuade. And for the most part, it does a decent job of it.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
dmovies.org | Ibrahim Azam |RaMell Ross |Christopher Greenslate
Ziba (Deba Hakmat) is a well-kept and determined British-Iranian teen. It is A-level results day, and she’s anxiously waiting for the outcome. Ziba’s stellar grades align with her aspirations to study astronomy at King’s College London, but a recent life-changing diagnosis thwart her greatest desires.Seemingly unperturbed by her ill health, Ziba plans a day of catharsis with her friends, culminating in viewing a meteor shower on Primrose Hill.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
dmovies.org | Victor Fraga |RaMell Ross |Christopher Greenslate
The year is 2000, and the place in Ponferrada, a medium-sized municipality in the Northwestern Spanish region of Leon. Twenty-five year-old graduate Nevenka Fernandez (Mireia Oriol) has no work experience and no political affiliation. That does not prevent mayor Mayor Ismael Alvarez (Urko Olazabal) from hiring her as finance councillor, the third highest-ranking position in local government.
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Sep 5, 2024 | 
dmovies.org | Victor Fraga |Sasha Nathwani |RaMell Ross
The action tales place in present-day Singapore, a small and heavily monitored island-state. Two-year-old Bo has disappeared. A mysterious baby-snatcher operated while the mum was distracted in the local supermarket. The two adults are left pointing fingers at each other, trying to figure out what happened. Parallel to this, they begin to receive CDs containing images of their daily lives.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
dmovies.org | Victor Fraga |Kevin Macdonald |Sasha Nathwani |RaMell Ross
This isn’t just a film about the late Beatle and the Japanese-born performance artist, who once shared a bed and disseminated a message of “peace and love” to the globe. One to One is also a vibrant panorama of the United States in the years of 1972 and 1973, when the couple left John’s native Britain in favour of New York. From the comfort of their relatively small and cosy rooftop flat in Greenwich Village, they watch American television.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
letterboxd.com | RaMell Ross
major, major, major A leaf twirls through a pair of Black fingers. A deck of playing cards is bridged together in extreme close-up. A dry-cleaned suit hangs out the window of a parked car like it’s waiting for its body to come back.
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Jun 5, 2024 | 
dmovies.org | Eoghan Lyng |Sasha Nathwani |RaMell Ross
Kathleen (Hazel Doupe) is a wayward 18-year-old from Ireland, who just left foster care behind. She promises her care worker that she will behave. The teenager is lucky to have her job after all. Following a drunken night spent out with a pal, Kathleen unwittingly falls on Dee (Clare Dunne), a lady who seemingly has it all sorted out. They become friends, spending time in nail salons, but the longer they have together, the greater Kathleen relies on her newfound “mother”.
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May 23, 2024 | 
dmovies.org | Eoghan Lyng |Sasha Nathwani |RaMell Ross
A psychic says: “This is the flesh of your father’s head. The flesh has turned into black dirt.” Sewn through the context of Viet and Nam, such a quip has pathos, particularly as what follows is a work of grief, remorse and chicanery. In an effort to match the sadness in their surroundings, the characters infuse Truong Minh Quy’s world with a variety of sentiments littered across the emotional spectrum.
