Kalinga 

When Juana tries real sushi for the first time, she is immediatley smitten by it and discovers a passion she never knew she had.

“I’m always interested in exploring female fantasy, and the sexy witch is a loaded archetype that is simultaneously about men’s fears and fantasies about women, and women’s feelings of empowerment and agency. So whereas we are used to seeing the sexy witch or the femme fatale from the outside, I wanted to explore her from the inside.” - Anna Biller, on why she made The Love Witch

"There is something going on between us that I cannot unravel."

A trouble-making teenager spends the summer working at a Southern California beach learning about responsibility.

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.

Intergenerational friendships and community can be so powerful, and this was a great example.