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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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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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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.
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May 17, 2024 | 
dmovies.org | Victor Fraga |Sasha Nathwani |RaMell Ross
Seventeen-year-old Adi (Ciprian Chiujdea) lives with his parents in a small rural town in Romania, not far from the Ukrainian border and the Black Sea, near the town of Tulcea. One evening, he shows up at home with a severely battered face, leaving his perplexed parents to investigate the violent incident, and ahead of the shambolic police officers in charge of the crime.
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Feb 25, 2024 | 
dmovies.org | Victor Fraga |Sasha Nathwani |RaMell Ross
The action takes place at an unspecified time on the snowy Nepalese Himalayas. Pema (Thinley Lhamo) marries three brothers: Tashi (Tenzin Dalha), Karma (Sonam Topden) and the nine-year-old(ish) Dawa (Karma Wangyal Gurung). This is a society where polyandry is widely accepted and even encouraged, and so the community wholeheartedly celebrates the newly-wed. The priest explains that it is Pema’s duty to look after her three husbands.
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Jan 31, 2024 | 
dmovies.org | Eoghan Lyng |Sasha Nathwani |RaMell Ross
All great storytelling is a journey of sorts, and Praia Formosa – the second part of a proposed trilogy – is no exception. This is a rollercoaster ride into ugly side to Brazil’s history: slavery. The film focuses on Muanza (Lucília Raimundo), trafficked into Rio de Janeiro’s port region, who unwittingly wakes up in the modern day.
