Girls Will Be Girls in Whale Rider
People are so much deeper and far more extraordinary than what gender they were assigned at birth.

People are so much deeper and far more extraordinary than what gender they were assigned at birth.
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.
Its predictability shouldn’t distract from the enjoyment that the pure cinematic imagination behind the camera elicits. It is a movie of crises both moral and mortal, oozing with CGI, and thoroughly enjoyable.
The most impressive aspect of this film is the honest and natural performances given by the on-screen duo.
The external threat invaded the domestic environment at the most valuable moment: grieving.
CODA' is about a child of deaf adults torn between staying with her parents and her dreams of pursuing music. This film is a step forward for deaf representation and disability in movies despite negative messages about the burden of actors deaf deafness.