Hoop-Tober, Film 5 of 31:

It’s hard to believe that Amer is the work of first time feature filmmakers. It's so incredibly polished and confident, but then again, it's scarcely a feature film; I almost view it as three separate but interwoven short films, two of them brief and the final one more lengthy. The content is rather obscure and much of the film acts as a loosely-plotted homage to Italian horror films of the 20th century, but there’s enough originality for the film to transcend mere homage and become an experience of memorable distinctiveness.

Through the portrayal of three crucial days in her life, each of them separated by a space of multiple years, Amer tells the story of…