Event Reviews
All the conventions, festivals and other exhausting live events you can shake a camera at.
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SDAFF 2025 : Left-Handed Girl
San Diego Asian Film Festival 2025 After spending years in the country, a single mother and her two daughters move to Taipei and open a noodle stall in a bustling night market. Family ties that bind are also the ones that gag, right? Trying to survive on your own, with no husband for support and extra funds, armed with a fractious teenage daughter and a precocious toddler daughter, mom has little to shield her from the scorn of her elders and the rest of her extended family....
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SDIFF 2025 : 100 Liters of Gold
San Diego International Film Festival 2025 Middle-aged sisters Taina and Paivi, famous in their Finnish village for making a traditional beer called ‘sahti’ via old family recipes, are hired to provide all the drink for a friends’ wedding, only to have to scramble to...
SDIFF 2025 : Rental Family
San Diego International Film Festival 2025 A struggling American actor living in Tokyo finds new purpose in a very different acting gig, as part of a “rental family” agency, where he plays stand-in roles for strangers. Brendan Fraser is a wonderful actor who...
SDIFF 2025 : Magic Hour
Reviewed by Alicia Glass San Diego International Film Festival 2025 As her suburban hell life falls apart when her cheating husband asks for a divorce and her scornful college-age daughter brooks no sympathy, Harriet decides to pursue her lifelong dream of...