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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 dive into her unexamined past and personal traumas. We all know the Vietnam war had a ton of repercussions, both in Vietnam and here in America, affecting soldiers and civilians alike for generations to come. What isn’t often...
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SDAFF 2024 Little Red Sweet
The legacy of a family-owned sweet soup shop in the back alleyways of Hong Kong begins showing strains when the mom holding everything together suffers a stroke. So May (Stephy Tang) is the elder daughter of the family, and dreams of escaping the life chained to the...
SDIFF 2024 Nightbitch
Reviewed by Alicia Glass A woman who put her career on hold to become a first-time stay-at-home-Mom finds her smaller world taking an almost supernatural turn. This is an odd one ya’ll. The film is touted as a body-horror dark comedy, but struggles to find a role, a...
SDIFF 2024 Bob Trevino Likes It
Reviewed by Alicia Glass Inspired by a true story from director Tracie Laymon, after a falling-out with her dad, Lily Trevino makes a connection with another ‘Bob Trevino’ on the internet, and they form a strange and beautiful friendship. Poor Lily Trevino (Barbie...