On the surface, this is a story of a woman trying to leave an abusive marriage, but it shines a light on the insidiousness of domestic violence and its roots in patriarchy.
Continue readingShayda (2023)
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It Lives Inside (2023)
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A guaranteed strategy to stay awake through your third film of the day, is to make sure it’s a horror.
Continue readingAnatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d’une Chute) (2023)
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Lesson one: don’t watch a 2 1/2 hour slow French film at 9:30 pm at night at the Comedy Theatre.
Continue readingSorcery (Brujería) (2023)
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I love a bit of folk horror and Chilean director Christopher Murray takes us on a slow and compelling journey through colonisation.
Continue readingMass (2021)
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What might you say if you came face to face with the parents of the child who killed your child?
Continue readingThe Humans (2021)
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This very confident directing debut from writer Stephen Karam has star power that will pull many an unsuspecting viewer into an inexorably bleak story.
Continue reading1976 (2022)
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Pinochet’s Chile in 1976 is a time where any opposition to his dictatorship meant quiet disappearance and torture or murder out of the public eye.
Continue readingPlan 75 (2022)
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This is a beautiful mood piece that explores what the world might look like if the elderly were no longer valued.
Continue readingNavalny (2022)
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This is just the kind of documentary you want to watch. It’s got intrigue, a charismatic protagonist and it captures real-life drama unfolding on camera.
Continue readingUnder the Fig Trees (2021)
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Erige Sehiri makes her fiction and feature debut with this sun-dappled pastoral day in the lives of Tunisian workers harvesting figs.
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