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"Meskada" (2010)
Directed by Josh Sternfeld
Released by Anchor Bay Entertainment
When this thriller premiered at Tribeca this past spring, Alison Willmore wrote, "the second film from writer/director Josh Sternfeld ("Winter Solstice") has ambitions reaching beyond being a straightforward police procedural," though critics, including her, were mixed about the end result. Nick Stahl and Rachel Nichols star as small-town sleuths who investigate a botched home invasion case that claims the life of a young child in an affluent community and enflames class divisions when the main suspects are from the poorer community nearby. Grace Gummer, Meryl Streep's second daughter to go into the family profession, makes her film debut.
"Anywhere USA" (2008)
Directed by Chusy Haney-Jardine
Released by Cinevolve Studios
Winner of a Spirit of Independence prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Chusy Haney-Jardine's collection of three comic vignettes involves a...
"Meskada" (2010)
Directed by Josh Sternfeld
Released by Anchor Bay Entertainment
When this thriller premiered at Tribeca this past spring, Alison Willmore wrote, "the second film from writer/director Josh Sternfeld ("Winter Solstice") has ambitions reaching beyond being a straightforward police procedural," though critics, including her, were mixed about the end result. Nick Stahl and Rachel Nichols star as small-town sleuths who investigate a botched home invasion case that claims the life of a young child in an affluent community and enflames class divisions when the main suspects are from the poorer community nearby. Grace Gummer, Meryl Streep's second daughter to go into the family profession, makes her film debut.
"Anywhere USA" (2008)
Directed by Chusy Haney-Jardine
Released by Cinevolve Studios
Winner of a Spirit of Independence prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, Chusy Haney-Jardine's collection of three comic vignettes involves a...
- 3/22/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Tim Bergmann (left) and Sasa Kekez
On one hand, we've seen the story of the new German coming out story Sasha before: a sensitive misfit who is a closeted gay teen tries to survive an ignorant, dictatorial father with the help his best female friend who is in love with him, while his mother, who senses the truth, makes aheartfelt, if ultimately misguided attempts to protect him from harm.
On the other hand, this same story has rarely been told quite this well, or acted by such a good cast. And the fact that the main character, Sasha, is the son of poor Croatian immigrants living in Germany makes this movie seem fresher than it otherwise might.
Sasha is nineteen and, along with his best female friend Jiao (Yvonne Yung-Hee), is studying for a musical scholarship that will finally take him away from the prosaic life of his ignorant, homophobic,...
On one hand, we've seen the story of the new German coming out story Sasha before: a sensitive misfit who is a closeted gay teen tries to survive an ignorant, dictatorial father with the help his best female friend who is in love with him, while his mother, who senses the truth, makes aheartfelt, if ultimately misguided attempts to protect him from harm.
On the other hand, this same story has rarely been told quite this well, or acted by such a good cast. And the fact that the main character, Sasha, is the son of poor Croatian immigrants living in Germany makes this movie seem fresher than it otherwise might.
Sasha is nineteen and, along with his best female friend Jiao (Yvonne Yung-Hee), is studying for a musical scholarship that will finally take him away from the prosaic life of his ignorant, homophobic,...
- 3/8/2011
- by Brent Hartinger
- The Backlot
Having just returned to Cologne, Germany from a Petrovic family vacation in their ancestral homeland of Montenegro, Sasha (Sascha Kekez) must return to practicing for his upcoming piano audition for entrance to a prestigious music conservatory at the constant urging of his mother, Stanka (Zeljka Preksavec). Sasha’s piano teacher Mr. Weber (Tim Bergmann) -- on whom Sasha has an insatiable crush -- informs Sasha that he is relocating to Vienna. Sasha is heartbroken -- make that devastated.
- 9/15/2010
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
Mercedes Quintero, Lucas Ferraro, Manuel Vignau in Marco Berger‘s Plan B (top); Tim Bergmann, Sascha Kekez in Dennis Todorovic‘s Sasha (upper middle); Andy Blubaugh‘s The Adults in the Room (lower middle); Johnny Ferro, Stephen Tyrone Williams in Kareem Mortimer‘s Children of God (bottom) Outfest 2010: Children Of God, Bloomington, Light Gradient, Plan B Synopses Marco Berger‘s Plan B, Susan Koch‘s The Other City, Dennis Todorovic‘s Sasha, Andy Blubaugh‘s The Adults in the Room, and Kareem Mortimer‘s Children of God are some of the highlights at Outfest 2010, the 28th edition of the Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, on Saturday, July 10. In the Argentinean romantic-triangle-of-sorts Plan B, a young man (Manuel Vignau) dumped by his girlfriend (Mercedes Quintero) not only befriends the young woman’s new boyfriend (Lucas Ferraro), but also attempts to seduce him. Note: This may sound like a comedy,...
- 7/9/2010
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Strand Releasing has picked up U.S. rights to the German coming-of-age drama "Sasha." Dennis Todororic directed the film from his own screenplay. The story focuses on Sasha, who, confronted with the everyday prejudice of his homophobic immigrant family, struggles with his urge to come out. When his beloved piano teacher Gebhard Weber plans to leave the city, the young man is heartbroken. The only person in whom he can confide his feelings is his best friend Jiao. After a failed audition, Sasha swears never to play piano again, but a consoling telephone call from Gebhard changes his mind – and causes a turn of events. The next morning all secrets are exposed and only his brother’s intervention prevents Sasha’s father Vlado from shooting Gebhard dead. But the gun still goes off... Ewa Borowski produced the film. Starring are Sascha Kekez, Tim Bergmann, , Rolf Berg, Predrag Bjelac, Ljubisa Gruicic,...
- 6/22/2010
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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