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Bill Stamets

Contributor
Jury says period piece expresses “the beauty of women’s solidarity … in a world that rarely seems to be made for them.”
The day also brings an indigenous man in white Brazil in ‘The Fever’ and Georgian homophobia in ‘And Then We Danced.’
Adaptation of Jerzy Kosinski’s World War II novel follows the child’s growth as he witnesses and endures horrors over a year and a half.
Also screening: a suspect hypnotism doc, a horror film drawn from Guatemalan civil war.
Also screening: Chinese live streamers in “Present. Perfect.’ and an animated look at the Taliban in ‘The Swallows of Kabul’
“Portrait of a Lady on Fire” and “Fire Will Come” also highlight the weekend
Young pregnant women are the focus of two other attractions: ‘Sole’ and ‘Adam.’