A Week at the Movies

A Week at the Movies This month I volunteered at the Chicago International Film Festival, which means I got to watch a bunch of new movies for free. It was a solid week of inhaling and exhaling cinema, and it became a bit intoxicating—I could keep doing this forever! It was a nice reminder that there's nothing quite like being in a theater and experiencing art with a bunch of strangers, laughing and gasping and tearfully applauding together in huge, dark rooms. I love the movies! Here are all the ones I saw. Elephants in the Fog (तिनीहरू) Letterboxd ♥︎Thriller, dramaNepal, Germany, Brazil, France, Norway Pirati is a matriarch within the Kinnar community in rural Nepal, where villagers conduct nightly patrols to ward off rampaging elephants. When one of Pirati's adoptive daughters suddenly disappears, she does everything in her limited power to find her. As the investigation wears on, the cisgender villagers grow increasingly hostile to their Kinnar neighbors. (Surprise screening) What…