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Short Films Review — Sundance 2022

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The 2022 Sundance Film Festival has wrapped and the winners were announced. The top prize from U.S. Dramatic Competition went to horror debut feature "Nanny" from Sierra Leonean-American director Nikyatu Jusu while Violet Columbus and Ben Klein’s "The Exiles" won Grand Jury Prize from U.S. Documentary Competition, beating festival favorites such as "Afterschock" and "Fire of Love". Other major prize winners are "Cha Cha Real Smooth" starring Dakota Johnson, documentary "Navalny", "Utama" from Bolivia and "All That Breathes" from India. From the short films program, there are 59 films selected from 10,374 submissions. 4,701 were from the U.S., and 5,673 were International. The program represents work from 26 countries, from "Lika Liku Laki" / "Makassar is a City For Football Fans" (Khozy Rizal, Indonesia) to "Prin oras circula scurte povesti de dragoste" / "Love Stories o

Review Get the Hell Out (Tao Chu Li Fa Yuan) (2020) — Los Cabos 2020

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Sutradara : Wang I-fan Penulis Skenario : Chien Shih-keng Pemain : Megan Lai, Bruce Hung, Chung-Huang Wang, Tsung-Hua Tou, He-Hsuan Lin, Francesca Kao Genre : Horror, Komedi Negara : Taiwan *** This film screened at Los Cabos International Film Festival Mexico 2020 *** Siapa yang tak suka zombie komedi dengan ke- absurd -an dan kekacauan tingkat tinggi? Dari zombie yang tercipta akibat gigitan monyet Sumatra dalam "Braindead"-nya Peter Jackson hingga "Shaun of the Dead" yang hingga saat ini masih diagungkan sebagai zombie komedi nomor wahid, atau merembet ke film blockbuster ; ada duologi "Zombieland" yang dibintangi oleh nomine dan pemenang Oscar Woody Harrelson, Jesse Eisenberg, Emma Stone dan Abgail Breslin. Semua memiliki keunikannya masing-masing ; Mereka aneh, brutal, menggelitik, terkadang brilian, juga lezat menjijikan .  Sub genre ini berevolusi dan makin bervariasi. Penyumbang terbesarnya memang dari kalangan indie dan film kelas B, namun kategor