Portrait galleries: festival highlights like Once Upon a Time in Harlem, I Want Your Sex, and If I Go Will They Miss Me offered a balm for independent art
Final call: many of the best films at the fest’s last edition in Park City affirmed its late founder Robert Redford’s belief in “the unexpected perspective”
Take a load off: Bilge Ebiri, Tim Grierson, and Madeline Whittle close out the fest, discussing The Weight, When a Witness Recants, Chasing Summer, and more
Mix it up: Madeline Whittle and Will Tavlin join to discuss The History of Concrete, Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild], and Nuisance Bear
Life of the mind: many of the films on view through the festival‘s virtual portal ranged from pallid to dismal, but Khalil Joseph’s BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions was the thrilling exception
Look and see: a number of films this in year’s selection—including Atropia, The Stringer, and others—grappled with the ethics of making images of war, violence, and suffering
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