“Flames” co-directors Josephine Decker and Zefrey Throwell have created something truly unique with their new docudrama, a word and genre that typically should be weighed heavily before being written as a descriptor. For good or for ill, depending on how gratuitously self-indulgent you find their filmed voyage of their passionate first months of uninterrupted love and inevitable disintegration, “Flames” is without a doubt unlike any other film released in recent memory.

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Like the flowers protruding from the ground in this warming weather, the spring film-festival season is in full bloom. It was just Thursday when May’s Cannes Film Festival announced its line-up. Now, we’re mere days away from this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, which serves not only as one of NYC’s biggest, most prolific film festivals, but also one of the biggest and most prestigious festivals of the new millennium.

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Founded in 2002 as a response to Tribeca’s loss of vitality shortly after the 9/11 attacks, the lower-Manhattan public-cinema event, co-founded by Robert De Niro, is an annual celebration of the power of documentaries, independent films, studio films and shorts in difficult days, and how worldwide art brings us together, notably through troubled, heartbroken times.

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When you have an artist like Miranda July co-signing and excited for an up-and-coming filmmaker’s next effort, perhaps that’s ample reason to sit up and take notice if you haven’t already. And you absolutely should. Performance artist, actor, and filmmaker Josephine Decker took the indie world by storm in 2014 with her startling one-two punch of “Thou Wast Mild And Lovely” and “Butter On The Latch.” Even before they premiered, the movies were the talk of the indie space after both pictures were accepted into the Berlin Film Festival that year, which raised Decker’s profile exponentially.

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