The Dove on the Roof 

A haunting look at grief, survival, and a mother’s quiet collapse in a world that never gave her room to fall.

Perhaps the most amazing and groundbreaking quality about The Birdcage is how removed it is from both illness and insensitivity. Whereas films preceding it were often somber stories about the tribulations of being gay in a conservatively straight world, Nichols and screenwriter Elaine May expose the fallacies of conservatism as traditional values are thrown into a more open-minded space. They don’t care how far the community has fallen so much as how high they can rebuild themselves.

Director Dana Ziyasheva made her directorial debut, 'Defenders of Life' which focuses on the Ngäbe community, and the hardships Ngäbe girls faced in Costa Rica.

While this film thinks that it is diagnosing the cause, it is merely diagnosing a symptom instead. 

An attempt to capture nostalgia that unfortunately just doesn’t work