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I SPY WITH MY LITTLE EYE (Tribeca 2026) – Review by Leslie Combemale

June 11, 2026June 14, 2026 Leslie Combemale Alisa Kolosova, german films, I Spy With My Little Eye, Judith Rose Gyabaah, Rahel Hutter, suicide, Tribeca 2026

Oof. Grief is messy. Like me, probably many of you out there know that. But do you know about the grief of someone you love taking their own life? That’s part of the premise of the German release I Spy With My Little Eye, but it doesn’t automatically make this indie the downer it sounds. In the case of this film, writer Judith Rose Gyabaah and director Alisa Kolosova wrap the experience of loss around enduring female friendship. It is joy and pain and fun and frustration. It is all the very real complications, like petty jealousies, varied levels of closeness, misunderstandings made and corrected, and everything else that makes up the way woman friends love each other.

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THIS MUCH WE KNOW – Review by Valerie Kalfrin

November 10, 2023 Valerie Kalfrin documentary, Ed David, Lily Frances Henderson, Oscilloscope Laboratories, suicide, This Much We Know

The documentary This Much We Know is like an essay in motion, pursuing tangents and possibilities but always circling back to the initial impulse, the unanswered question. It ponders a painful subject—suicide—but as director Lily Frances Henderson pulls on different threads, she also considers the unknowable. Concepts that are hard to fathom, with odds so phenomenal, they seem unreal until they’re not—and how people deal with such uncertainty. Henderson lost a friend to suicide years earlier. This Much We Know is sparse on details about her friend’s life, but what triggered her death inspired this film, essentially a peek inside Henderson’s mind. She has no easy answers, but she’s thoughtful and considerate.