Capturing the world of a six-year-old child with astounding authenticity, Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq shows us a time in our lives before we understand the larger world.
Continue readingÀma Gloria (2023)
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Le Spectre de Boko Haram (2023)
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Children are the same everywhere, except the ones living in a Cameroon civil war zone tell stories of people being blown up and make art and drawings about tanks and guns.
Continue readingParadise (Paradis) (2023)
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A couple of cinematic hours in a remote, Siberian village is never a bad thing. I still remember the exquisite Ága (2018), an intensely beautiful exploration of silence and subsistence that immersed you in a life that seems far removed from what we think of as Russian culture.
Continue readingIt’s Only Life After All (2023)
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My heart was full after spending two hours with Amy Ray and Emily Saliers a.k.a. the Indigo Girls.
Continue readingLate Night with the Devil (2023)
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This thoroughly enjoyable schlock horror game show pastiche is, as my MIFF buddy Not a Sexy Vampire aptly calls it, “the Don Lane show gone to hell.”
Continue readingThe Nature of Love (Simple Comme Sylvain)(2023)
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I kept thinking this romcom was ‘so French’ as it eschewed all the typical tropes in favour of a madcap, wry cynicism about love. But of course, it’s French-Canadian. Sorry!
Continue readingLost in the Night (Perdidos en la Noche)(2023)
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Amat Escalante’s Lost in the Night feels like an amalgam of Mexican films I have seen over the past few years.
Continue readingGoodbye Julia (2023)
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Mohamed Kordofani (in an accomplished debut feature) teaches us about the political and social issues in Sudan in the early years of the Millennium through the eyes of two women on opposite sides of the conflict.
Continue readingSleep (잠) (2023)
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Set predominantly within an apartment, Bong Joon-ho protege Jason Yu’s ‘not really a horror’ hits the right balance between creepiness and drama.
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