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Sylvia Savadjian retweeted
Honored to conduct an exclusive interview with indigenous artist Sara Flores @hyperallergic. Currently representing Peru @la_Biennale, Flores is featured in a doc that premiered @TIFF_NET and comes stateside @DOCNYCfest next month.
Thank you, @TheFilmStage! The Natural State makes its East Coast premiere Oct. 17th at @woodstockfilm with dir. Matthew Dougherty (a Catskills local) in person.
woodstockfilmfestival.org/20ā¦
Backed by Jane Campion, Matthew Dougherty's new documentary 'The Natural State' examines the contradictory state of non-belief.
Read @djmecca's review ahead of the @woodstockfilm premiere: thefilmstage.com/woodstock-rā¦
Exclusive new feature interview with Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs artist Sara Flores @hyperallergic. Following a standout world premiere at @TIFF_NET, the Peruvian doc screens as opening night of @DOCNYCfest:
hyperallergic.com/sara-floreā¦
Sylvia Savadjian retweeted
The #TIFF26 premiere 'The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs' is an elegiac portrait of an indigenous Peruvian artist.
Read @fuzzyyarns' review: thefilmstage.com/tiff-reviewā¦
Sylvia Savadjian retweeted
In his TIFF dispatch, @812filmreviews reviews DARLENE LOVE: I KNOW WHERE I'VE BEEN, EDWARD SAID: BETWEEN WORLDS, & THE HUMMINGBIRD PAINTS FRAGRANT SONGS: rogerebert.com/festivals/tifā¦
Sylvia Savadjian retweeted
For my final dispatch of TIFF, I wrote about DARLENE LOVE: I KNOW WHERE I'VE BEEN, EDWARD SAID: BETWEEN WORLDS, and THE HUMMINGBIRD PAINTS FRAGRANT SONGS.
My thoughts on these very good documentaries for @ebertvoices.
rogerebert.com/features/tiffā¦
Thank you, @easternKicks for this excellent interview (and review)! Advik Beni's mother, you have not died yet. but you will. and when you do, you will finally be alive again. screens 9/19 at @CamdenIFF
āThis film is a kind of mediation, on finding solidarity, on how we deal with the uneasiness.ā ADVIK BENI talks about debut feature mother, you have not died yet. but you will. and when you do, you will finally be alive again. @CamdenIFF
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Thank you, @AWFJ! Next up, look for The Natural State at @woodstockfilm: woodstockfilmfestival.org/20ā¦
AWFJ's @dcarson_critic reviews Telluride Film Fest release #TheNaturalState, saying director Matthew Dougherty's doc about Indian anti-guru U.G. Krishnamurti, is a "daring endeavor" & "a staggering, astute interrogation" of Krishnmurti's appeal. More here: awfj.org/blog/2026/09/11/theā¦
Sylvia Savadjian retweeted
TIFF 2026: āThe Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songsā finds the person behind the art.
#tiff2026 #tiff #filmfestival #filmreview #ĆliaGasullBalada #MatteoNorzis
themoviebuff.net/2026/09/tifā¦
Sylvia Savadjian retweeted
South African filmmaker Advik Beniās debut feature, āmother, you have not died yet. but you will. and when you do, you will finally be alive again.,ā makes its North American premiere at the Camden International Film Festival in Maine on September 19, 2026.
The 74-minute South Africa/U.S. production world premiered in competition at FIDMarseille in France in July, where it won the Prix du Public ā Audience Award.
Set in a post-apartheid Indian township in Durban, the film follows Lishana as she cares for her dying mother and turns to her art practice to process the experience. The film combines documentary and re-enactment, moving between the personal and the national, the tangible and the mystical, the living and the dead.
Advik Beni and Lishana Nandhlal wrote it, and Nehal Vyas and Rob Rice produced it. The film is in English, Hindi, and Zulu with English subtitles.
Watch the trailer.
#SouthAfricanCinema #AdvikBeni #CamdenIFF #AfricanCinema
Thank you @filmindependent; The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant songs has played to sold out audiences and standing ovations at #TIFF26. Final TIFF screening on Sept. 19th: tiff.net/films/the-hummingbiā¦
āThe Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songsā had its world premiere at #TIFF26! Film Independent recently supported the project and director Ćlia Gasull Balada in the 2026 Documentary Story Lab. Producer Maria Altamirano is also a #FiFellow, and has participated in Fast Track 2020, Producing Lab 2020 and the Imaginar Producers Residency 2023.
The documentary follows 75-year-old Indigenous artist Sara Flores emerges from the Peruvian Amazon into the global contemporary art scene.
New interview with Matthew Dougherty, director of #Telluride #documentary standout, The Natural State. Thank you, @hammertonail!
hammertonail.com/interviews/ā¦
New director interview for #TIFF26 doc, The Hummingbird Paints Fragrant Songs world premiering Sept. 12th: povmagazine.com/how-the-hummā¦
Thank you, @POVmagazine
#documentary #TIFF #Toronto
āWe realized that even picking up plants is a form of territorial resistance...the work is a visual manifesto for Indigenous ethics.ā
How #TIFF26 doc THE HUMMINGBIRD PAINTS FRAGRANT SONGS harnesses the art of Sara Flores.
povmagazine.com/how-the-hummā¦
Excellent #Telluride documentary roundup by @heydudemeg. "You slowly fall into the intrigue and stories..." in The Natural State.
thecontending.com/2026-telluā¦
2026 #Telluride Documentaries Roundup: Adam Pearson Doc Shines, A Debut Enlightens, & One Final Act Closes Out a Trilogy thecontending.com/2026-telluā¦
"Formally inventive, psychologically gripping and ethically attentive." -@hammertonail on The Natural State
New review at Hammer to Nail! #Telluride
hammertonail.com/reviews/theā¦
āThe Natural State may avoid easy answers, but itās a gripping documentary that confronts those who desperately search for spiritual awakening, asking them to question those who peddle any version of the answers." -NBP #Telluride
nextbestpicture.com/the-natuā¦
THE NATURAL STATE
Review by @howatdk
#TheNaturalState #MatthewDougherty #JaneCampion #Documentary #MovieReview #Movies #Film #Cinema #FilmTwt #FilmX #FilmTwitter
nextbestpicture.com/the-natuā¦
Deadline has an exclusive first look at the Jane Campion produced The Natural State, world premiering today at #Telluride. Matt Carey sits down for an exclusive interview with Campion and director Matthew Dougherty. Interview + new trailer premiere:
deadline.com/2026/09/the-natā¦
Director Matt Dougherty, E.P. Jane Campion Explore Riveting āAnti-Guruā U.G. Krishnamurti In 'The Natural State' ā Telluride Film Festival deadline.com/2026/09/the-natā¦
Look for the Jane Campion produced, The Natural State making its world premiere at #Telluride on 9/5.
telluridefilmfestival.org/
Telluride Film Festival Lineup: 'Elsinore' With Andrew Scott And Olivia Colman; Jesse Eisenberg's 'The Debut'; Mike Leigh's 'Tender Loving Care' And More Set For World ... deadline.com/2026/09/telluriā¦
"Piques your interest with its title itself and goes on to deliver on the promise of ingenuity in its precise but profound 74 minutes. No wonder itās said that good things often come in small packages." -@Namrata_Joshi
Sometimes films reach out to you in unanticipated ways. Advik Beniās debut āmother, you have not died yet. but you will. and when you do, you will finally be alive againā is a formal experimentation with heart & history, mixes personal with political
cinemaexpress.com/internatioā¦
āļøāļøāļøāļø! review at @easternKicks. Look for Advik Beni's mother, you have not died yet...making its N. American premiere 9/19 at @CamdenIFF #CIFF
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Advi Beniās documentary is an unmissable mixed media exploration of grief and identity: mother, you have not died yet. but you will. and when you do, you will finally be alive again ā
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