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In “Dandelion,” a struggling Cincinnati singer-songwriter (KiKi Layne, “If Beale Street Could Talk”) is looking for a way to make music for a living when, while performing at a motorcycle rally in South Dakota, she meets Casey (Thomas Doherty), a guitarist who long ago gave up on his dreams. Falling in with a nomadic band…

I love film festivals. It’s as simple as that. You go, usually to a far-flung location, a place on a map that appears unreal at first, to see movies before anyone else. Some are big titles starring glitzy names made by legendary or up-and-coming auteurs that will sometimes dominate the public moviegoing consciousness. Seeing those…

No matter how many films I see at a festival, I almost always miss the big prize winner. It’s almost as if the jury is purposefully picking the one film I either haven’t seen or had never heard until their name was announced at the awards ceremony. This time, at the Karlovy Vary International Film…

Ben (Grant Rosenmeyer) is not okay. His wife and artistic collaborator Sarah (Reina Hardesty) died suddenly, leaving him in a state of shock. He forgets to eat, he forgets to sleep. Stuck in a neverending stupor, he forgets to take care of himself. When his concerned sister Gloria (Lucy DeVito) and her husband Tom (Nican…