Butterflies (Turkish), 5/5 stars.
A very beautiful film that falls in the category of laughing, crying, and left wanting more. It's about three siblings who have all not heard from their father in 30 years, but after receiving a call from him and each needing a break from their failing lives, they set out on a road trip back to the village they were once small kids in. They come home to find that their father just recently passed and they are left in his home with only each other to truly grieve with. The siblings grow close to each other as we see them weak and floundering for answers nearly as often as we see them stand up and face their issues head on. The film is about grief, family, and sibling love. Also it's about exploding chickens. I enjoyed it immensly.

Leave No Trace (American), 3/5 stars.
Leave No Trace tells the story of a father and a daughter who are found by authorities after living off the grid for several years. They camp out in a state park and practice drills of hiding from people and authorities. You're suspect at first that they do this because the father is wanted or something like that. There is even this scene where the father sells perscription drugs to some shady guys I a tent. But in reality, it is later implied that the dad is a former veteran and has difficulty living in society.

I say implied because they never specifically say it. Really they never specifically say anything. To say that this film had a script I think would be stretching it. Silence was highly utilized alongside the sounds of nature to convey feeling and there would often be minutes of the movie that would pass without a single word being spoken. This put a lot of pressure on the actors' facial expressions and although I thought that they did fairly well, it wasn't perfect and I found myself wishing there was more script to support them and give me a better sense of what that character was thinking or feeling at given times. After all, there is only so much you can convey with a look.

The plot if the movie was pretty repetitive. The narrative of "live one own, get roped back into society, daughter likes society and doesn't want to leave, dad makes her leave" is repeated twice in the film to the extent that it seems almost copy-pasted. I mean, I understand why they did it. In the end the daughter, Tom, decides to stay and her dad leaves on his own after a long, silent, goodbye. And they wanted to show the change in Tom since the beginning, where she would have gone anywhere with her dad. But the narrative was so long and so implied that it only took about 10 minutes for you to realize it was repeating and that not much would change. And you'd be right.