Incluvie Film Festival Review of 'Sleep No More'
This short film was an overall creative success.

In a bar, Sofia and Filippo—once in love, now strangers only on the surface—meet again for a drink that turns into a confession. Between irony and melancholy, the two retrace the past and the failures that have marked them, discovering how difficult it is to live with loneliness and with their own limitations. In the play of banter, memories, and still-open wounds, a subtle affection resurfaces—made of regrets and an intimacy that has survived time—leaving suspended the question of what remains when love ends but does not completely fade away.
This short film was an overall creative success.
Documented human suffering is never easy to view or read about and is understandably triggering for many people, but it can be educational, and education is a key to change. An overwhelming amount queer people worldwide (and in my own country) have it far worse than I could imagine, and documentaries such as Welcome to Chechnya bring issues to light that certain groups of people would never see.
The accountant in question is Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck), who’s neurodivergent. We know this because at a dating event, he bores women with tax advice. He also places his breakfast foods in neat stacks and has no friends.
An aspect of She-Ra that I find refreshing is even though a large portion of the cast is on the LGBTQ+ Spectrum, being gay is never mentioned. While this might initially sound like a negative thing, in the show’s land of Etheria being on the gay spectrum is shown to be so common and normalized that straight isn’t the default. As much as there is to appreciate about narratives revolving around the obstacles that may come from being non-heteronormative, it’s nice to get immersed in a world where no one bats an eye at all to any sort of differing identity.
The June episode of the Incluvie Movie Highlights provides 3 new and buzzworthy films presenting different types of love: Good Luck to You, Leo Grande with intimacy, Father of the Bride with familial love, and this month's feature - Fire Island, with intimate and romantic love. Movie Critic Melanie Ojwang joins us to discuss Emergency.