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Natchez and The Librarians

Andre Is An Idiot (Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Anthony Benna)

Andre, a brilliant idiot, is dying because he didn’t get a colonoscopy. His sobering diagnosis, complete irreverence, and insatiable curiosity, send him on an unexpected journey learning how to die happily and ridiculously without losing his sense of humour.

Apocalypse In The Tropics (Country: Brazil, US, Denmark; Year: 2024; Director: Petra Costa, Moara Passoni; Writer: Petra Costa, Alessandra Orofino, David Barker, Nels Bangerter, Tina Baz, Moara Passoni; Stars: Petra Costa, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Jair Bolsonaro, Silas Malafaia, Michelle Bolsonaro, Elizete Malafaia, Oscar Niemeyer)

Examination of the rise of the far right in Brazil.

The Librarians (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Kim A Snyder)

As an unprecedented wave of book banning is sparked in Texas, Florida, and beyond, librarians under siege join forces as unlikely defenders fighting for intellectual freedom on the front lines of democracy.

Natchez (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Suzannah Herbert; Writer: Suzannah Herbert, Pablo Proenza)

A consideration of the American South’s unreconciled history through a Mississippi town that mixes antebellum tourism with a community deeply divided over its past.

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