This is a tricksy, slightly surreal drama that may have had more impact on me if it wasn’t 9:30 pm and the fourth film of my day.
Continue readingThe Things You Kill (2025)
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This is one of those deeply upsetting documentaries where you are watching the viciousness and callousness when patriarchy is challenged play out in a rural Iranian village.
Continue readingIt Was Just an Accident (یک تصادف ساده)(2025)
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April (აპრილი)(2024)
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This was one of my most interesting MIFF experiences this year. It had the hallmarks of the kind of film I like – Georgian (Scary Mother and My Happy Family are two Georgian films I loved), about feminist issues (access to abortion for low-income women) and reviews called it “tense, ominous, and viscerally captivating.”
Continue readingLate Shift (Heldin)(2025)
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This is the second film I have watched in the past week that is an intense and understated drama about the experiences of nurses in hospitals.
Continue readingMa – Cry of Silence (2024)
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It is hard to feel at all optimistic after this quiet meditation on the situation in Myanmar at the moment.
Continue readingTrains (Pociagi)(2024)
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A Useful Ghost (ผีใช้ได้ค่ะ)(2025)
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At the end of a long day of film watching, when you’re feeling a little bit tired emotionally wrung out by a couple of films, what you need is something a bit silly, a bit lovely and with a few twists and turns you don’t see coming.
Continue readingHarvest (2024)
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This is such an interesting film by Athina Rachel Tsangari (Chevalier), and something that I appreciated more after hearing her talk in a Q&A afterwards.
Continue readingThe Librarians (2025)
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I found this documentary deeply upsetting. I never thought there would be a situation where librarians would be the frontline warriors for human rights.
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