Mehmet Usta, who is trying to keep his father's ice cream shop in Kahramanmaraş afloat, is getting older. He has pinned all his hopes on his son Mert, who has completed his education in Istanbul, to continue the family business. Mert is a dreamer who grew up influenced by his grandfather's stories. His goal is to turn Maraş ice cream into a global brand, as his grandfather had told him. On the other hand, he also wants to marry his childhood sweetheart Mine and start a family. To achieve this, he and his friend Max, who works as an extra on film sets in Istanbul, travel to Kahramanmaraş to make their dreams come true. However, in Kahramanmaraş, they are met with entirely different surprises.
Director Martin Scorsese broadens his boundaries from mafia-driven movies, to a Buddhist biopic of the 14th Dalai Lama. While Buddhism strives for peace, ‘Kundun’ reveals the violence inflicted on Tibetan Buddhists and Scorsese’s depiction of violence does not stray away.
People are so much deeper and far more extraordinary than what gender they were assigned at birth.
‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ is preoccupied with plot and not on the greater struggle of the Osage.
In Deaf, the Spanish director Eva Libertad explores pregnancy and motherhood from the perspective of a deaf woman. Her movie examines how the world imposes the notion of disability on her main character while she actually does not feel disabled herself.
This feels like the creative team wanted to make a body horror film, but the studio wanted to make another generic blockbuster.
Adrian Chiarella’s Leviticus is a beautiful, poignant, enraging, gut-wrenching, and heartbreaking film about the trauma and harm conversion therapy inflicts on young queer people. Even though its classification as horror holds, the emotional bond between the two main characters, Naim and Ryan, elevates the story into a realistic romantic drama on par with Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.
