Imagine if The Tree of Life wandered into the Norwegian wilderness and decided to stay awhile—less cosmic awe, more moss underfoot. That’s the tone Songs of Earth strikes. Margreth Olin’s documentary is a contemplative, Thoreauvian immersion into the rhythms of nature and memory, where storytelling unfolds not in events, but in footsteps and snowfall.

At the center is Olin’s father, Jørgen—84 years old and still tracing the same paths through Oldedalen, a valley often called the most beautiful in Norway.…

The 19th century, particularly across many parts of Asia, was marked by the institutionalization of underage marriage—a practice that, disturbingly, continues in veiled forms to this day. In The Third Wife, this practice is neither condemned nor excused; instead, it serves as the quiet axis around which the narrative turns. Ash Mayfair’s composed debut unfolds in Vietnam during that era, where 14-year-old May s a landowning household as its newest bride. She is swiftly absorbed into a structure defined by…