MSPIFF43: AWTT.HAAUS RECS

In Our Day (2023) — dir. by Hong Sang-Soo

Welcome to the awtt.haaus blog. Titled, ‘writings on the wall’, the blog’s genesis will be awtt.haaus’s first year of covering MSPIFF. In addition to the entire  festival line-up being listed on the site here, awtt.haaus, with the help of local film writers, will also be releasing brief, written dispatches of our impressions of the festival titles we see. The inaugural post features my recommendations of what to look out for at the 43rd addition of the festival. Lastly, in collaboration with the Film Society, use the promo code AWTTHAAUS43 for 20% off your MSPIFF43 ticket.

lost in the night [perdidos en la noche] (2023) — dir. by amat escalante

I can’t think of many other film festivals that showcase the sheer volume of (primarily new) titles that the Minneapolis/St. Paul International Film Festival does. That the Twin Cities are treated to such variety and range is nice for accommodating everyone’s tastes but with 200+ choices, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. I’ve sifted through every movie showing and have selected roughly 40 films that I’m either anticipating or look interesting to me. I make no promises on how much you’ll enjoy something, but you will at the very least be challenged and provoked which, to me, is the best kind of art.. cheers! 

    ⌂                   About Dry Grasses *     ⌂           Àma Gloria             ⌂         Banel & Adama           ⌂            The Beast*          ⌂           The Buriti Flower        ⌂               Chicken for Linda!                    ⌂              City of Wind             ⌂           Critical Zone*          ⌂                  Daughters            ⌂                       The Daughters of Fire*         ⌂           Dead Mail               ⌂               Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World*              ⌂                    Evil Does Not Exist*              ⌂             The Gospel of the Beast         ⌂ Grace*        ⌂         Guardians of the Formula             ⌂            The Gullspång Miracle            ⌂             In Our Day*                 ⌂              Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell*            ⌂             Janet Planet*           ⌂           Last Summer*           ⌂             Lost in the Night*        ⌂               Love is a Gun                 ⌂             Mambar Pierrette*         ⌂             MMXX*    ⌂         Mandoob*        ⌂            Property*         ⌂              A Ravaging Wind           ⌂              Remembering Every Night*           ⌂        Richland             ⌂        The Rye Horn        ⌂          Sira              ⌂            Snow Leopard      ⌂              Solids by the Seashore         ⌂            Sugarcane            ⌂         Sujo                  ⌂                 Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool PaintED          ⌂               Sweet Dreams           ⌂                 Terrestrial Verses              ⌂                Tomorrow is a Long Time                                       ⌂                                                         Voy! Voy! Voy!           ⌂        We Have Never Been Modern                      ⌂                        White Plastic Sky            ⌂

NOTE: Titles with an * next to them are films that I’m especially anticipating and would prioritize if you’re only able to see one or two films. Also something to be mindful of — Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell and Mambar Pierrette  are only showing once, everything else on the list is playing at least twice.

inside the yellow cocoon shell [bên trong vo kén vàng] (2023) — dir. by thien an pham