Daily grind: Affonso Uchôa’s debut feature searches for meaning in the seemingly mundane conversations and chores of three working-class Brazilian women
Drift away: Jessica Beshir’s documentary is a hypnotic montage of the people, nature, and Sufi parables that surround the khat trade in Harar, Ethiopia
Time was: this raw, no-frills concert documentary leaves a slightly bitter aftertaste, not entirely unlike the vague regret of a Sunday morning coming down
Listening to other women: series featuring new preservations of the videos of Les Insoumuses finally make the collective’s work available to a wide audience
Bridge over troubled water: Hong Sangsoo’s second movie employs a bravura narrative structure that elucidates the solipsistic lives of its protagonists
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