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Hippo Hippo
Hippo and Femme
Femme (Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Sam H Freeman, Ng Choon Ping; Writer: Sam H Freeman, Ng Choon Ping; Stars: George MacKay, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett)
Jules is a drag artist in London. After a performance, he is brutally attacked and, traumatised, withdraws into himself. Months later, he recognises his assailant in a gay sauna and begins an affair with him, incognito. A revenge thriller.
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Hippo (Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Mark H Rapaport; Writer: Mark H Rapaport, Kimball Farley; Stars: Kimball Farley, Lilla Kizlinger, Eliza Roberts, Jesse Pimentel, Vann Barrett)
Home-schooled step-siblings come of age - a video game-addicted teenager and a Hungarian immigrant with a love of classical music and Catholicism.
Full Review See: Interview with Mark H Rapaport about Hippo
Ms. Apocalypse (Country: South Korea; Year: 2023; Director: Lim Sun-ae)
A socially awkward bookkeeper for a tech factory finds out that the colleague whom she has a crush on is embezzling funds, and decides to cover for him.
Tiger Stripes (Country: Malaysia, Taiwan, Singapore, France, Germany, Netherlands, Indonesia, Qatar; Year: 2023; Director: Amanda Nell Eu)
A carefree 11-year-old girl begins to experience horrifying physical changes to her body.
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