Gold dust and spinach pizza

Marmato
Excellent doc about a mining community in Columbia being bought out by a foreign mining company. It's not as depressing as it sounds, it's actually quite beautiful. Those miners are fierce. Having done a lot of research on coal mining in my previous career, I was fascinated to see the technology of 100 years ago still in use. Carbide lamps! I thought you couldn't get carbide anymore. Recommended.

Wetlands
I thoroughly enjoyed Wetlands. Helen is obsessed with bodily fluids, her mom is crazy, and something from her childhood is haunting her. For all that I've complained about poop in this festival, the liquid shit in this one was part of the story (and the blood, the semen, the vaginal fluid...) so while my gorge rose a few times it was all fine. Excellent acting, quirky, funny, great music. Plus there was a great juxtaposition of a Bad Religion t-shirt with a discussion of Catholicism. But I'm afraid to be the one who sent someone to see this one.

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Gunshots are extremely loud, dumbass

Sam and Amira
Sweet romance about a retired soldier and an illegal immigrant in New York just before the crash in 2008. Recommended.

Frank
Includes the best song about carpet I've ever heard. Still digesting the rest.

The Grand Seduction
A dying Newfoundland town bands together to secure a doctor in order to bring a factory to the town. Hijinks ensue. If you're into those tottering stack of lies farces, it's a scream.

Time Lapse
A low-budget genre film that couldn't settle on a cleverness level. If it had kept a slasher film idiot level throughout, then the idiot moments wouldn't have knocked me out of immersion. B for effort, my expectations were too high.

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