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Sands Film Festival 2024
In Camera In Camera
In Camera and Sometimes I Think About Dying
Achilles (Country: Iran; Year: 2023; Director: Farhad Delaram; Writer: Farhad Delaram; Stars: Mirsaeed Molavian, Behdokht Valian, Roya Afshar, Neda Aghighi, Firouz Agheli)
A young filmmaker who currently works in a hospital takes a mental patient out for a short ride to find out who she really is. Now he has to decide whether to run away with her or take her back to the hospital.
In Camera (Year: 2022; Director: Naqqash Kahlid; Writer: Naqqash Khalid; Stars: Nabhaan Rizwan, Amir El-Masry, Rory Fleck Byrne)
An actor struggles with the various roles he is juggling in life.
Full Review See: Naqqash Khalid on modern masculinity and 'anti-acting' in his debut In Camera
Maestra (Country: US, France, Poland, Greece; Year: 2023; Director: Maggie Contreras)
Documentary follows women from different backgrounds as they compete in the first all-women competition for conducting.
Mami Wata (Country: Nigeria; Year: 2023; Director: CJ "Fiery" Obasi; Writer: CJ "Fiery" Obasi; Stars: Evelyne Ily, Uzoamaka Aniunoh, Kelechi Udegbe, Emeka Amakeze, Rita Edochie, Tough Bone)
When the harmony in a village is threatened by outside elements, two sisters must fight to save their people and restore the glory of a mermaid goddess to the land.
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Orlando, My Political Biography (Orlando, ma biographie politique) (Country: France; Year: 2023; Director: Paul B Preciado; Writer: Paul B Preciado; Stars: Paul B Preciado)
Docufiction interpretation of Virginia Woolf's novel.
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Mami Wata Mami Wata
Mami Wata and Orlando, My Political Biography
Silent Roar (Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Johnny Barrington; Writer: Johnny Barrington; Stars: Louis McCartney, Ella Lily Hyland, Mark Lockyer, Fiona Bell)
A young surfer struggles to accept his father's disappearance at sea.
Smoke Sauna Sisterhood (Country: Estonia, France, Iceland; Year: 2023; Director: Anna Hints)
In the darkness of a smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences, washing off the shame trapped in their bodies and regaining their strength through a sense of communion.
Full Review See: Anna Hints on building trust and the importance of the elements to Smoke Sauna Sisterhood
Sometimes I Think About Dying (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Rachel Lambert; Writer: Kevin Armento, Stefanie Abel Horowitz, Katy Wright-Mead; Stars: Daisy Ridley, Dave Merheje, Parvesh Cheena, Marcia DeBonis, Meg Stalter, Brittany O’Grady)
Fran likes to think about dying. It brings sensation to her quiet life. When she makes the new guy at work laugh, it leads to more: a date, a slice of pie, a conversation, a spark. The only thing standing in their way is Fran herself.
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Welcome To Collinwood (Country: US; Year: 2002; Director: Joe Russo, Anthony Russo; Writer: Joe Russo, Anthony Russo; Stars: Sam Rockwell, Luis Guzman, William H Macy, George Clooney, Patricia Clarkson, Jennifer Esposito, Isaiah Washington, Gabrielle Union, Michael Jeter)
A group of hapless crooks attempt to pull off the perfect heist in Cleveland.
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Wolfwalkers (Country: Luxembourg, Ireland, US; Year: 2020; Director: Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart; Writer: Will Collins, Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart; Stars: Sean Bean, Honor Kneafsey, Eva Whittaker, Simon McBurney, Tommy Tiernan, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Jon Kenny, John Morton, Nora Twomey, Paul Young, Niamh Moyles, Oliver McGrath, Sean Bean, Honor Kneafsey, Eva Whittaker)
Animation set in the Ireland of the Cromwell period, when a young apprentice hunter comes to Ireland to wipe out the last pack... only to discover the magical world of the wolfwalkers.
Full Review See: Interview with Svend Rothmann Bonde and Maria Pareja about Wolfwalkers
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