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October 31, 2019

CIFF 2019: A Thief’s Daughter, by Jonathan Leithold-Patt

An intimate work of social-realist portraiture in the vein of the Dardenne brothers, A Thief’s Daughter brings us into the life of Sara, a young single mother trying to stay afloat through circumstances that have spiraled beyond her control. As...

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October 25, 2019

CIFF 2019: The Painted Bird, by Jonathan Leithold-Patt

Within the first minutes of Václav Marhoul’s The Painted Bird, an adaptation of a 1965 novel set in a geographically undefined, Boschian hell of an Eastern Europe circa World War II, a young Jewish boy is running through the woods...

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October 23, 2019

CIFF 2019: And Then We Danced, by Jonathan Leithold-Patt

It’s telling that Levan Akin’s And Then We Danced was submitted by Sweden, and not Georgia, for Oscar’s Best International Feature Film category. No amount of festival plaudits could have likely convinced the latter country to represent an LGBT film...

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October 22, 2019

CIFF 2019: Fire Will Come, by Jonathan Leithold-Patt

Considering the title of Óliver Laxe’s Cannes-laureled third feature film, it’s not giving anything away to mention that, eventually, a fire does come. Raging through a large swath of rural land in Spain’s Galicia region, it becomes a behemoth outmatching...

Category: ciff 2019

CIFF 2019: A Thief’s Daughter, by Jonathan Leithold-Patt

CIFF 2019: The Painted Bird, by Jonathan Leithold-Patt

CIFF 2019: And Then We Danced, by Jonathan Leithold-Patt

CIFF 2019: Fire Will Come, by Jonathan Leithold-Patt

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