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Ekaj (2015)
Gritty, authentic character drama
Caught this at the Palm Beach Film Festival back in April and loved it. New York in every way, the film has a very fluid, hand-held documentary verite feel to it and paints an impressively endearing portrait of characters living in a place few people ever have the misfortune of experiencing. The story avoids any and all clichés that could befall a troubled youth narrative, which is of course an incredibly welcome quality in this kind of film. The filmmakers did an off-the-charts job with casting - every single character in the film feels 100% organic, and Badd Idea in particular gives an incredible supporting performance as Mecca.
It'd be a great thing if more films like this could actually find their ways to accessibility by the masses, as unlikely as that is with atrocious superhero-driven schlock clogging up the distribution pipelines.