Day: November 17, 2024

Directed, written by and starring Dayan D. Oualid, this short explores Dan (Oualid), who studies scripture all day, but has been asked by Sarah (Sophie Arama) to help her husband Eli (Michael Charny), who seems not himself. He’s possessed, but what follows isn’t what we’ve come to expect from Western films. He gathers a minyan, […]

Directed by Dennison Ramalho, who wrote Embodiment of Evil, this is the tale of Filho (Everaldo Pontes), a man caught between his love for his pious mother and his overwhelming lust for Formosa (Débora Muniz), who has given her soul to Satan and wants him to join her as she leaves behind their small town. If […]

These three films appear along with November on the All the Haunts Be Ours Volume 2 set. Boundary (2009): Set among an isolated community in a remote landscape near the Russian border, Boundary offers the sound of wind, images of spaces and a general feeling of a chill. According to its mission statement, it “evokes a space of ambiguity, […]

These two short films appear with Born of Fire on Severin’s All the Haunts Be Ours Vol. 2 set. Towers of Silence (1975): Directed and written by Jamil Dehlavi, this is the life of a Pakistani boy’s and how his obsession with death starts after he watches the Zoroastrian rituals of purification and regeneration. It’s a black and white semi-autobiographical […]

Directed by Tomás Skrdlant and written by its subject, Frantisek Hrubín, this is a remembrance of childhood from Hrubín, who started the Czech children’s magazine, Mateřídouška (The Thyme) and would go on to write 18 movies, including one of the films that this is in the same box set with, the 1978 Juraj Herz directed Beauty and […]

Directed and written by Katrina Irawati Graham, this uses the ghost known as the Kuntil Anak to tell the story of an artist named Raesita. This supernatural entity is often a pregnant long-haired woman dressed in white that gets her revenge from men by drinking their blood and eating their organs. You can tell that […]

These two short films appear with Edge of the Knife on Severin’s All the Haunts Be Ours Vol. 2 set. Haida Carver (1964): On Canada’s Pacific coast, director Richard Gilbert shot this short film about young Haida artist, Robert Davidson, and shows how he shapes miniature totems from argillite, a jet-like stone. While many of the Haida people his […]