So many films to watch at the Philadelphia Film Festival, currently ongoing from October 20-November 3, 2011, and so little time.
Here are 5 films that caught our radar and may be worth seeing if you’re in the Philadelphia area, or to look out for when they come to a film festival or theater in your city.
[sws_red_box box_size=”580″]The Destiny of Lesser Animals
Director: Deron Albright [/sws_red_box]
A dangerous, moving journey through modern Ghana, as Inspector Boniface Koomsin, a Ghanaian police detective, embarks on a dangerous, crime-laden journey to recover the one thing he needs to realize his ultimate dream– to escape the ghosts of his past and return to America.
[sws_red_box box_size=”580″]Remigration
Director: Barry Jenkins[/sws_red_box]
In a future San Francisco that is entirely upper-class, the city starts a program to bring working-class families back to the city that pushed them out.
[sws_red_box box_size=”580″]Like Water
Director: Pablo Croce[/sws_red_box]
This documentary follows UFC champion Anderson Silva through the training for the most important fight of his career.
[sws_red_box box_size=”580″]I’m Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad, and the Beautiful
Director: Jonathan Demme[/sws_red_box]
A documentary chronicling five years in the life of Carolyn Parker, a remarkable resident of New Orleans’ Ninth Ward, as she struggles to rebuild her life following Hurricane Katrina.
[sws_red_box box_size=”580″]Streets
Director: Jamal Hill[/sws_red_box]
Set in Philadelphia, the film follows Nicole (Nafessa Williams), whose recently-divorced mother has just taken a high-profile job with Philadelphia’s District Attorney. The young woman is a stranger to the city until she befriends girls involved with a faction of gang leaders in Philly’s “hood,” which opens her up to a world in which violence is justice.
If other films have caught your attention, please do add them to the comments section.
Enjoy the festival!
The Destiny of Lesser Animals is refreshing… a must-see, must-watch, must-appreciate… must-everything!
I really want to see Barry Jenkins Remigration – so much heard and talked about, now I need to see it for myself. Anyone know where online?
Heey Charlottee!
If you are in Philly right now, you can support the movie at the Philly Film Festival on-going.
Otherwise, here’s a link, http://futurestates.tv/episodes/re-migration. But stretch your support for the film by all means if you can. Thanks.
Hey Ben! Thanks for the link man! This is sweet!
Is there a link for the other two too? Lol.
Daimn negro! Don’t you know that we gotta support or filmmakers?
‘Like Water’ may just be the documentary of the year. That brother form Brazil is really good. He is the man – best pound for pound fighter in the world ever! And the second is a brother too. ha!