Festival International du Rire de Liège 2017 

Set in a future dystopian United States in which water is running out, Julia Hart’s Fast Color (2018) is a refreshingly different take on the superhero film.

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.

The documentary depicts the indigenous people of Mexico with sublime reverence, highlighting a generational harmony with the land.

How powerful can a story be when it is stripped to the bare essentials of just a room, a handful of people and raw human voice?

Based on the best-selling novel by Angie Thomas and a maxim of the late Tupac Shakur.