STRAW 2025: A Mother’s Silence Was Louder Than a Siren
A haunting look at grief, survival, and a mother’s quiet collapse in a world that never gave her room to fall.

Hoping to reconnect with his Vietnamese roots, Dũng, an American engineer, spends his entire annual leave to stay in Saigon. He enlists the help of his close friend Lâm whose playboy and hedonistic lifestyle will steer his homecoming in a very different trajectory.
A haunting look at grief, survival, and a mother’s quiet collapse in a world that never gave her room to fall.
The Resort has an excellent climax surrounded by disappointments. Somehow, at a mere 75 minutes, this movie still manages to be 70 minutes too long.
The whole family will enjoy these fantasy and science fiction stories about families and individuals connecting, finding true love, and discovering self.
As Sexual Assault Awareness Month comes to an end, I’d like to urge viewers and filmmakers to take a long and hard look at how rape is portrayed on screen.
An artistic approach to the impact of Billie Holiday’s “Strange Fruit”.
As Andrew’s life begins to change, his passion for drumming soon becomes a spiraling obsession in the pursuit of perfection. Through the use of disturbing and abusive training methods, Fletcher puts Andrew through emotional and physical agony.