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SDIFF 2025 : Aontas
San Diego International Film Festival 2025 When an unlikely trio of women attempt to rob a rural Irish Credit Union, a told-backwards chronology reveals what led to such an inadvisable and desperate act. In this hard-bitten past-regretting look at a small Irish town on the brink of financial ruin, there is no joy to be found anywhere. The town is plagued by funerals, thinly-disguised bad guys in expensive suits, and the womenfolk seemingly left behind after the men have gone are all...
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SDIFF 2022 The Wind and the Reckoning
Reviewed by Alicia Glass The story of a small 19th century colony of Native Hawaiians who refuse to accept government-mandated exile when leprosy breaks out amongst their people and home. Imagine it. You’re a Native Hawai’ian, having lived in and loved the islands...
SDIFF 2022 American Murderer
The story of how small-time criminal Jason Derek Brown went from scamming his friends and family out of money, to occupying a spot on the FBI’s Most Wanted list for murder! Meet Jason Derek Brown (Tom Pelphrey), the big kid in an adults body, charming and glib-tongued...
SDAFF 2022 Detectives vs. Sleuths
Hong Kong is plagued by a series of terrible murders, of former suspects in cold cases who’ve evaded capture for years, by a vigilante gang calling themselves the Chosen Sleuths. In order to tell a whole entire story that includes new generations of detectives and...