Magellan Magalhães
Synopsis
In the 16th century, after convincing Spanish royalty to fund his expedition, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (played with harrowing intensity by Gael García Bernal) sets his sights on Southeast Asia. Charting a course for the Malay Archipelago, he embarks on a brutal campaign of religious conversion and colonial conquest, but obsession and madness begin to take hold.
Filipino auteur and “slow cinema” practitioner Lav Diaz helms this starkly beautiful biopic, an unconventional epic centering violence against a series of stunning, languid landscapes. Deliberately paced and endlessly absorbing, Diaz subverts the genre’s conventions at every turn, rejecting traditional mythmaking in favor of a more exacting, critical eye. The result is an awe-inspiring history that examines the sinister cruelty fueling the Age of Discovery.
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- Joaquim Sapinho, Marta Alves, Albert Serra, Montse Triola, Paul Soriano, Mark Viktor
- Gael García Bernal, Ângela Azevedo, Amado Arjay Babon, Ronnie Lazaro, Hazel Orencio, Tomás Alves, Bong Cabrera, Baptiste Pintaux, Brontis Jodorowsky
- Rosa Filmes, Andergraun Films, Black Cap Pictures, Lib Films
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Adult Children
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Tasked with writing an essay for her college application, high school senior Morgan (Ella Rubin) is at a loss. With no real sense of who she is or what she wants, the 17-year-old is hopeful that her much-older half-siblings will provide some inspiration. But after their mother heads off to Europe on a long overdue vacation, the sheltered teen quickly realizes that they might be even more off balance as she is. Charged with keeping brother Josh (Thomas Sadoski) from going off the deep end yet again, Morgan and sisters Lisa (Betsy Brandt) and Dahlia (Aya Cash)—each with their own issues and secrets—struggle to maintain equilibrium as the misadventures mount.
In this endearing Chicago-made dramedy, director Rich Newey and writer Annika Marks (Killing Eleanor) paint a humorous and touching portrait of coming of age at all ages. Featuring winning performances from Brandt (Breaking Bad), Sadoski (Life in Pieces), and Cash (The Boys), and an especially sympathetic turn from newcomer Rubin (Anora, The Idea of You), Adult Children is richly drawn, deeply felt, and warmly amusing.
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- Angie Gaffney, Thomas Sadoski, Annika Marks, Rich Newey, Brittani Ward
- Annika Marks
- Ken Mowe
- Jessica Young
- Betsy Brandt, Aya Cash, Ella Rubin, Thomas Sadoski, and Mimi Rogers
- The Co-Stars
- Kelly Aisthorpe Waller, Michele Girgis, Ted Reilly, Markie Glassgow
- Chicago Media Angels, 521 Films, Let's Try One Productions
- https://www.521films.com/adultchildren
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Seeds
Synopsis
Intimate, epic, and lyrical, Seeds chronicles the lives of a community of Black farmers who have toiled on their land for over a century in the American South. From cotton harvesters rolling across the fields to men pulling corn, wrangling cattle, or bringing burlap bags of pecans to the market, the film poetically shows the eternal rhythms of farm life, at the same time as it reveals the precarity of the farmers’ plight. Trucks are in disrepair; banks refuse to lend them money; and promised federal funds aren’t reaching them. Still, they persist, driven by a duty to their ancestors, their children, and the need to maintain freedom in an increasingly challenging world.
Winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary, Seeds is a tribute to the determination of filmmaker Brittany Shyne and her subjects. Shot over nine years and presented in pristine black-and-white, Seeds presents a reverent, elegiac, and almost timeless vision of a waning way of life.
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