Cause Cinema Selects: Truths Buried In Plain Sight
Grief, Propaganda, and the West
Some films don’t just tell a story, they expose the story underneath the story. These three picks are wake-up calls:: a surreal family reckoning that turns grief into confrontation, a documentary where truth is pushed to the edge, and a sweeping re-examination of the American West that asks who gets to write history in the first place. Together, these projects live in that uneasy space where myth collapses, silence breaks, and the real cost of survival finally comes into view.
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
A surreal, darkly funny, and deeply haunting family reckoning set in Zambia, where a death on the road cracks open everything unspoken. Rungano Nyoni blends the absurd and the devastating with total control, creating something that feels like a nightmare you can’t look away from.
My Undesirable Friends: Part I — Last Air in Moscow
A gripping, urgent documentary about independent journalists trying to report truthfully in Putin’s Russia as the country tightens into fear, propaganda, and war. It’s immersive, intimate, and emotionally exhausting in the way the best political cinema is less “explainer,” more lived reality.
Kevin Costner’s The West
A sweeping, accessible history series that reframes the American West not as myth, but as collision. Land, ambition, violence, survival, and legacy. Big storytelling, strong pacing, and a reminder that the “West” is still shaping the American present.
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