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Title: BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions Foreign Title:  Year: 2025 Country: U.S.A Language: Enflish Awards: Director: Kahlil Joseph Cast: Not a documentary in the conventional sense, nor a fiction film, Kahlil Joseph’s feature doesn’t even fit comfortably into the category of “avant-garde” cinema. It’s a work that defies categorization, so it’s probably best to write more about what it does rather than what it is. The film opens with an image

Title: Your Touch Makes Others Invisible  Foreign Title:  Year: 2025 Country: Sri Lanka/USA Language: In Tamil, Sinhala, English and Russian with English subtitles Awards: Director and Writer: Rajee Samarasinghe Credits: Rajee Samarasinghe’s film is an act of bearing witness. A native of Sri Lanka, the director uses religious imagery, documentary interviews and staged scenes to explore injustices that occurred near the end of the country’s civil war. Between 1983 and

Title: Force Times Displacement  Foreign Title:  Year: 2025 Country: Taiwan Language: Awards: Director: Angel Wu Cast: There’s nothing like the free play of the imagination, as Force Times Displacement helpfully reminds us. This delirious, delightful short opens on an object that I’m hard-pressed to describe; I suppose I could call it a flesh ball. The grey and white globe pulses and contracts as we hear bubbly fluid sounds; eventually, a