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“Nine Days,” the ambitious and often impressive debut feature from writer-director Edson Oda, surprises by positing a prelife world, and a vetting process determining which souls are awarded a term on Earth.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 6, 2021

“Nine Days,” the ambitious and often impressive debut feature from the writer-director Edson Oda, surprises by positing a prelife world, and a vetting process determining which souls are awarded a term on earth.

From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2021

Sent together, the twin and the niwt, chained together always in life as in prelife.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver