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Bentonville Film Festival announces 2022 winners, including best narrative feature Every Day in Kaimuki
The in-person portion of the 2022 Bentonville Film Festival wrapped up this past weekend with an awards ceremony at Bentonville’s Meteor Guitar Gallery

Poser review: it’s All About Eve for the indie music scene, and one of the best films of the year
POSER looks at fandom and obsession while immersing its viewer in a unique musical world

Happening review: a harrowing and deeply empathetic story of unwanted pregnancy
The new film HAPPENING looks at reproductive rights by transporting us to the past, to 1960s France

The Innocents: a moody but problematic thriller about the cruelty of childhood
THE INNOCENTS is a well-made piece of cinema tainted by a careless portrayal of autism

The Tale of King Crab: a nineteenth-century Italian folktale, richly imagined on film
Italian-American filmmakers Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis explore the nature of storytelling in their latest work THE TALE OF KING CRAB, following the centuries-old tale of Luciano from lovelorn drunk to treasure seeker.

The Northman: a beautifully crafted and immersive historical epic
Director Robert Eggers successfully scales up his historical approach to filmmaking, giving us a larger cast and a grander story than he has before.