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We Grown Now 2023
An important snapshot of life in the projects (Cabrini Green, Chicago) in the early 1990s. In this deeply humanizing piece, Baig showcases two (presumably) pedestrian families through the lens of their school age children, who - with a youthful ignorance - navigate a system that does not grant the same liberty and justice to all. Often, authority is faceless - whether this is the teacher, voice from school loudspeaker, or melee of police officers (heartlessly) following through on orders from…
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Tótem 2023
Foreign film that explores a slice of life in Mexico, which in 95 minutes made me an enthusiast of Lila Aviles.
In a non-heavy handed way, this film asks us to ponder mortality, not just what this means for us as humans (one who is terminally ill, another who is older with age), but how we are impacting life for other living beings in our ecosystem (like animals). In one moment, we are reminded that this great extinction we are…
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