“The Sun Never Sets” on Male Fragility
The concept of male fragility is explored (interestingly, by a male director) in The Sun Never Sets

In this TV drama, seventeen-year-old Maja helps her older brother Bokan to solve a debt that he cannot pay because he is in prison. Wanting to prove herself, Maja insists on doing the job on her own without nobody's help. This decision will take her into a world of violence for which she is not ready.
The concept of male fragility is explored (interestingly, by a male director) in The Sun Never Sets
What seems like such a simple story of survival is so much more than that—it’s a story of family, and of war, and of destruction. It’s painful to watch, but not in a bad way. It makes its audience reflect on their own actions, and in how they are complicit in the sufferings of others as the adults in this film are. Grave of the Fireflies does not hold back from being heartbreaking, and it shouldn’t. It tells a message that needs to be heard decades after the war, and a story that cannot be forgotten by history.
Highlighting the many ways in which AFF 2023 illustrated that the queer experience is not a monolithic one.
A dark film in the tradition The Brother’s Grimm.
While the film didn’t hit me as emotionally as I wanted it to, I still enjoyed it. I simply wish there was a little more, particularly with the world building.
"Driveways" is a nuanced portrait of an Asian American family, touching on themes of loss, growth, and belonging.