Best known for her non-linear multimedia work, filmmaker Mara Ahmed creates documentaries, soundscapes and visual art projects that challenge colonial narratives and cross political and cultural borders. Born in Lahore but educated in Belgium, Pakistan and the United States, Ahmed’s work reflects those layered histories and displacements. She has directed five films, including “The Muslims I Know,” “Pakistan One […]
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Anomaly Film Festival to screen guerrilla art piece ‘The People’s Joker’
The trans film by Vera Drew plays November 11 at The Little Theatre.
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Rochester native Danny Doran uncorks “Sons of Mezcal”
The documentary will screen on Wednesday, June 7 at The Little Theatre as part of Rochester Cocktail Revival.
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Local indie film ‘A Pharaoh’s Lonely Ego’ is an outlandish fever dream
Musician Austin Lake adds film to his creative repertoire with his Rochester-heavy, melodramatic horror-comedy.
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2020 Witness Palestine Film Festival explores Middle East conflict, goes virtual
This year’s Witness Palestine Film Festival is free and completely virtual, with four films centered around the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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The arts, the writing on the walls, and the writing on the streets
The Black Cinema Series and the new public art project by Shawn Dunwoody at Manhattan Square Park are part of the effort to promote racial equity in Rochester.
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Preview: Rochester International Film Festival
The area’s longest-running film festival returns for its 62nd year with a virtual online edition.
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Stolen art and mending hearts
The documentary ‘The Painter and the Thief’ forms a portrait of two lonely souls bonded through art.
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Round-up: new to streaming
With movie theaters around the greater Rochester area shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic, film lovers are having to look elsewhere for their viewing entertainment. Here are some of the best from the waves of new offerings arriving on digital platforms.
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The Little launches ‘Virtual Little’ streaming and YouTube channel
CITY’s Adam Lubitow previews “And Then We Danced,” the first of The Virtual Little’s films to stream.
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A very bland adventure
“Wendy” never entirely earns the emotions at its core, leeching any resonance it does have through whatever attachment the viewer might have to the original “Peter Pan” story.
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Film preview: ‘Greed’
British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom re-teams with comedian Steve Coogan for “Greed,” a barbed but frequently uneven comedy taking aim at the fast fashion industry.
