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The Alexandria Film Festival has grown during the past 14 years from a creative idea to a firmly entrenched part of our city’s burgeoning...

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] “Her Name was Jo” was included as part of the Alexandria Film Festival’s Girlpower Showcase, and while the film features...

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] The Alexandria Film Festival will take place virtually this year from Nov. 12 to 15, according to a news release. This...

Necessity is the mother of invention. Never has that old saying been truer than this year. The coronavirus pandemic had been brewing for two months,...

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] More than 1,000 cinephiles flocked to the Charles Beatley Library and AMC Hoffman Center 22 for the 13th annual Alexandria...

By Luke Anderson | [email protected] In her 2017 documentary, “White Right: Meeting the Enemy,” Muslim filmmaker Deeyah Khan works her way under the skin of...

By Denise Dunbar | [email protected] Moe Berg was a brilliant man, and Aviva Kempner is an amazing filmmaker. So it’s unsurprising that Kempner’s movie about...

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] The open road, a set of wheels and a dream. In the grand mythology of America, they’re the holy trinity,...

By Denise Dunbar | [email protected] One of the highlighted movies in this year’s Alexandria Film Festival, “This Changes Everything” makes a compelling case that discrimination...

By Cody Mello-Klein | [email protected] President James Buchanan, our country’s 14th commander-in-chief, is commonly ranked as one of the worst presidents in American history. His decisions...