Posts filed under 'Drama'
SHALOM TAIWAN- 2022. Synopsis by RT. “The financial problems of a Jewish Community Center, in a small neighborhood in the city of Buenos Aires, are a nightmare for young Rabbi Aaron. Neither his industriousness nor optimism seem enough to repay the longstanding debt he owes. Threatened with the shutdown of his beloved Community Centre, Rabbi Aaron embarks on a humorous and heartwarming journey to the Far East to attract donations.”
8/7/22- Weak early reviews but it sounds interesting. TRDB.
Tags: drama. foreign
August 7th, 2022
MEMORY BOX- 2022″ Synopsis by RT. “On Christmas Eve in Montreal, Alex and her mother Maia receive a package in the mail. Inside are the countless notebooks, cassettes and photographs that Maia, between the ages of 13 and 18, sent from Beirut to her best friend who had left for Paris to escape the war.”
8/7/21- Very good reviews for this foreign drama. TRDB.
Tags: drama. foreign
August 7th, 2022
A LOVE SONG- 2022. Synopsis by RT. “Faye (Dale Dickey) is a lone traveler biding her time fishing, birding and stargazing at a rural Colorado campground as she awaits the arrival of Lito (Wes Studi), a figure from her past who is navigating his own tentative and nomadic journey across the rugged West.”
8/1/22- Good reviews. TRDB.
Tags: drama
August 2nd, 2022
MY OLD SCHOOL- 2022. Synopsis by RT. “In 1993, 16-year-old Brandon Lee enrolled at Bearsden Academy, a secondary school in a well-to-do suburb of Glasgow, Scotland. What followed over the next two years would become the stuff of legend. Brandon had been privately tutored in Canada while he accompanied his mother, an opera diva, on tour before her tragic death. The preternaturally bright student surprised teachers by blazing toward his goal of entering medical school.”
7/23/22- Very good reviews. TRDB.
Tags: documentary
July 23rd, 2022
MY DONKEY, MY LOVER & I- 2022. Synopsis by RT. “Antoinette, a schoolteacher, is looking forward to her long planned summer holiday with her married lover Vladimir, the father of one of her pupils. When she learns that Vladimir has to cancel because his wife organized a surprise hiking vacation, Antoinette decides to follow their tracks, accompanied by a protective donkey named Patrick.”
7/23/22- Very good reviews for this French comedy. TRDB.
Tags: drama. foreign
July 23rd, 2022
SKIES OF LEBANON- 2022. Synopsis by RT. “A poetic blending of the personal and political, Skies of Lebanon combines live action with animation to create a vivid picture of Lebanon, inspired by the family history of filmmaker Chloe? Mazlo. Using stories told to her by her grandmother of life during the Lebanese Civil War, Mazlo crafts a touching and heart-breaking story of love during wartime.”
7/23/22- Excellent reviews for this drama. TRDB.
Tags: drama. foreign
July 23rd, 2022
ANYTHING’S POSSIBLE- 2022. Synopsis by RT. “Anything’s Possible is a delightfully modern Gen Z coming-of-age story that follows Kelsa, a confident high school girl who is trans, as she navigates through senior year.”
7/23/22- Good early reviews. TRDB.
Tags: comedy/drama
July 23rd, 2022
ART OF LOVE- 2022. Synopsis by RT. “A professor at a top university in Puerto Rico falls in love with an aspiring artist from the immigrant Chinese community.”
7/23/22- Just 3 reviews and they are all poor. TRDB.
Tags: drama
July 23rd, 2022
QUEEN OF GLORY- 2022. Synopsis by RT. “‘Queen of Glory’ is the story of Sarah Obeng, the brilliant child of Ghanaian immigrants, who is quitting her Ivy League PhD program to follow her married lover to Ohio. When her mother dies suddenly, she bequeaths her daughter a Christian bookstore in the Pelham Parkway section of the Bronx where Sarah was raised.”
7/18/22- Fairly good reviews by the critics. TRDB.
Tags: drama
July 18th, 2022
MY NAME IS SARA- 2022. Synopsis by RT. “MY NAME IS SARA tells the true life story of Sara Goralnik, a 13-year-old Polish Jew whose entire family was killed by Nazis in September 1942. After a grueling escape to the Ukrainian countryside, Sara steals her Christian best friend’s identity and finds refuge in a small village, where she is taken in by a farmer and his young wife.”
7/18/22- No reviews as yet but it sounds interesting. TRDB.
Tags: drama. foreign
July 18th, 2022
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