
In the midst of the devastating drought of 1912 on the Paraguaná Peninsula, two young people, Vicenta and Paito, find themselves in a moment of loss and hope, and decide to undertake a dangerous journey to Coro, facing thirst, hunger and death in their search for a better future.
Rules are nowhere to be seen in the harsh unfiltered reality of ‘Fair Play.’
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.
“It's not ghosts. It's not supernatural. It's... It's America. And it's everywhere.”
KIMI is the main character of this film and as much as I wish it was Angela Childs played by Zoe Kravitz, it isn't. KIMI is a smart device that works not unlike Amazon's Alexa and Google's Nest assisting in anything from home purchases to music playing all under the guise of only activating when in use.
I came across Urchin by chance and decided to watch it because of the title. It made me think of the spiky animal that lives at the bottom of the ocean, and the old Dickensian novels, where an urchin was an orphaned, homeless child in shaggy and dirty clothes.