After 25 years, Ehsan visits the family of his former comrade, Davood, to tell his mother that his body has been found. Davood's mother is an elderly woman who has spent most of her life in prayer and worship, and is now closer to fulfilling one of her lifelong dreams, which was to travel to Karbala.
Complex relationships between mothers and daughters are far from a new concept, whether the strain comes from abandonment, beliefs, or trauma. In My Only Wish, an Incluvie Film Festival submission, Brenda Gutierrez’s take on her character’s maternal divide comes in the form of abandonment.
We got a movie that takes the old school approach of trying to creep you out with chilling atmosphere more than anything else.
Perhaps the most amazing and groundbreaking quality about The Birdcage is how removed it is from both illness and insensitivity. Whereas films preceding it were often somber stories about the tribulations of being gay in a conservatively straight world, Nichols and screenwriter Elaine May expose the fallacies of conservatism as traditional values are thrown into a more open-minded space. They don’t care how far the community has fallen so much as how high they can rebuild themselves.
At first glance, Black as Night is a strange title choice for a film about vampirism in post-Katrina New Orleans. However, the title alludes to the world's anti-black and colorist messages.
Wanda and Vision are suffering under the stress of parenting their twin boys.
New horror film "Pretty" is good to look at thanks to 19-year-old director Metecan Duren.
