Glendora (2026) Dances With Films New York 2026

This is a super film.  It is a quietly powerful film about a community that speaks volumes about the basic good nature of humanity.

Shot over several years by a filmmaker who embedded themselves with in the community, GLENDORA is a portrait of  Glendora Mississippia and could have only been told by someone who did the work and lived in the town.

The film is a series of sequences where we watch the people of Glendora tell us about their lives and their town. They lay out their existence and essentially reach out and bring us in and make us one of them. We get to know these wonderful people and their hard scrabble life.

I was moved.

I really liked this slice of life. There is a simplicity to it all that is allows the life of the people on screen to bleed out and go into the seats. That filmmaker Isabelle Armand manages to do this speaks volumes about their skill in showing life as lived. This is (low key) cinematic magic that will put this film, and the people we meet in it, deep into your heart

Highly recommended.