“LUKA”: Jessica Woodworth’s latest feature starring Geraldine Chaplin screened at FFO 2023

Jessica Woodworth, Belgian-American filmmaker based in Belgium, has finished a new and ambitious film, “LUKA.” It’s an adaptation of the Kafkaesque novel “Il deserto dei Tartari” (1940), a.k.a. “Th…

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Jessica Woodworth: “When you tell a delicate story, it requires a lot of dedication, skill, and craft”

The whole cinematic landscape has changed drastically—almost overnight—since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic. Late February, when it still was business as usual, I met American-born film d…

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Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth: “Cinema is so sacred to us that we only shoot what we believe in”

‘King of the Belgians’ has been the official title of 56-year-old Belgian monarch, King Filip, for the past three years, but now it also refers to a lighthearted, delightful, and at the…

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83/365 Stars who were gold on foot .... #Gaurav #Dhwaj #Khadak #Kathmandu #Nepal #GoldStarShoes
After a bunch of searching I finally rediscovered one of my favorite movies, #Khadak, at this magnet link:
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It's about a young Mongolian whose nomadic sheep-herding family group is forced off the commons into environmentally destructive capitalist labor in a factory town, and his shamanic awakening in the middle of all that. If you're spiritually/shamanistically/environmentally inclined, it might become one of your faves too