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SDIFF 2025 : Terroir
SDIFF 2025 : Terroir Three wine connoisseur friends, visiting a vineyard in France for a review for Kirsta’s mothers’ wine ranking magazine, discover a link to their recent past coming back to haunt them. Little in this world is as arrogant and condescending, as a wine connoisseur. The kind of person that sits there and debates the best sized goblets so that there’s plenty of room in the glass for the nose, gotta inhale that bouquet; who makes godawful noises whilst swishing wine over...
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SDAFF 2024 Dead Talents Society
Reviewed by Alicia Glass So our Rookie (Gingle Wang) hasn’t been dead terribly long as other ghosts would describe it, and isn’t terribly familiar with the big business that the haunting and urban legend celebrity ghosts perpetuate. When the offerings at a ghosts...
SDAFF 2024 New Wave
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The film is half a recollection of displaced Vietnamese kids fled to America after the Vietnam war creating a community of their own around the super-popular New Wave music movement, and half a biographical journey of filmmaker Elizabeth Ai’s...
SDAFF 2024 Shanghai Blues
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The amazing 4K restoration of a beloved 1984 classic for its 40th Anniversary, Shanghai Blues tells the story of a pair of star-crossed lovers who, determined to meet up after the war with the Japanese is over, endure all sorts of...