A Queer Review of the Austin Film Festival (2023)
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.

A lonely girl lets two strangers into her home in a post-apocalyptic world ravaged by monsters.
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.
This current year, as well as the past several, has seen a slowly building increase in something the horror genre has required for quite a while in this critic's opinion...originality. I've stated before that I am very hard to please when it comes to this vein of the film industry's offerings, always leaning more towards that which sends chills through my very being in lieu of buckets of blood and gore.
This remake of the Disney Channel Original Movie of the same name brings a strong representative cast.
Not every silence is empty. Some are filled with things too heavy for words.
As a frequent “the book was better” extoller, this movie was well worth the watch.
In this short film, writer/director Nikita Hattangady focuses on Jai, a starving artist rooted in the latter category. Though unhoused, he works hard.