Sundance 2025: FOLKTALES’ poetic and musical cinematic portrait of Nordic folk school in the Arctic has charmed audiences
Scandinavian Arctic culture receives some of the most memorable poetic and musical cinematic treatment to be found in this year’s Sundance slate, with the premiere of FOLKTALES, directed by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady. It is not surprising that this documentary has become quite the darling at Sundance. The film knits together stunning imagery of … Read more
Sundance 2025: Entertaining, stylish, snappy The Dating Game documentary offers engrossing glimpse into Chinese society
There are far too numerous erroneous and misrepresentative reports in the Western media about China, its people and…
Sundance 2025: Outstanding acting, finely understated screenplay, sensitive directing make Omaha, filmed in Utah, a beautiful screening experience
The character of the father in Omaha, a drama set during the Great Recession of 2008, is much…
Sundance 2025: Midnight program’s Touch Me is a gratifying romp of campy, dark comedy, fantasy-horror with plenty of psychological and sexual vibes
From Sundance’s Midnight program this year, Touch Me, written and directed by Addison Heimann, is more than a…
Sundance 2025: The Librarians documentary packs a riveting punch on the alarming surge of book banning
A powerful symbolic image in Kim Snyder’s The Librarians documentary, which has received its premiere at Sundance this…