Best of Fest MSPIFF45

When 11-year-old Iris discovers her estranged dad in town for his father’s funeral, she tracks him down to an old shipyard in hopes of reclaiming an absent family bond. With her mother on vacation with her new boyfriend, Iris is free to stubbornly assert herself into her father’s somewhat troubled life. Together, and not without […]

A tense and surprisingly subversive debut drama that will make you wonder what would you do in the protagonist’s place, Don’t Call Me Mama looks at power imbalances and difficult choices. Eva (the superb Pia Tjelte), a popular high school teacher and wife to the town’s mayor (Kristoffer Joner), faces the ultimate test when she […]