Indie Film "Where There is Love, There is No Darkness" Shines
Stevan Lee Mraovitch’s film is a beautiful tribute to family, found family, and the lengths people will go to support their loved ones.

Andin, a woman who has reached the lowest point in her life. Every day, Andin works tirelessly selling sandwiches to support her family. Andin, who also plays two roles at once, a dutiful daughter and a patient mother, never complains and has no place to rest. However, that day was different. Behind the quiet of their simple home, emotions erupted one by one, the limits of patience cracked, and tragedy struck without warning.
Stevan Lee Mraovitch’s film is a beautiful tribute to family, found family, and the lengths people will go to support their loved ones.
This film is a splendid mix of mediums, but its strength lies in its simplicity and beautiful message of closeness.
The external threat invaded the domestic environment at the most valuable moment: grieving.
Another uneven "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" redux that says nothing novel about its subject matter.
Netflix’s Shadow and Bone has a complicated relationship with race. It has a diverse cast, but not without its problems. Based on Leigh Bardugo’s two book series, the show features characters from the Shadow and Bone trilogy, which is very straight and white, and the Six of Crows duology, which is much more diverse. When bringing together a cast and writing about these characters, the team behind the show expanded upon some of the representation missing from the first trilogy, then seemed to take away representation from the duology. Shadow and Bone seems to play a bit of a push and pull game when it comes to portraying diversity onscreen.
The movie opens with an empty house, cameras pan around from the perspective of what viewers are confused about at first, but turns out to be a spirit living in the home.