Mother, I’m suffocating
Some of you may remember that I was working on my first political essay following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. I had made it available earlier...
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The final curtain
July 13, 2025
by Nadin Mai
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I still remember the excitement I felt when I saw my first slow film. Summer 2009. Slow and exciting are perhaps two words that don’t...
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Notes on the End of a World – The Films of Béla Tarr
December 2, 2024
by Nadin Mai
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What we may be witnessing is not just the end of the Cold War, or the passing of a particular period of post-war history, but...
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Green Border – Agnieszka Holland (2023)
September 15, 2024
by Nadin Mai
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The history of Western encounters with ‘the other’ is a horrifying collection of oppression, colonisation, extermination; of seemingly intellectual debates about race and the superiority...
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Seven Winters in Tehran – Steffi Niederzoll (2023)
September 1, 2024
by Nadin Mai
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How can a man understand the devastated should have a woman after rape? How can a man understand the shocked mind and body of a...
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No Other Land – Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham (2024)
June 20, 2024
by Nadin Mai
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It’s a sign of the times that the few film reviews I wrote since the beginning of the year dealt with Israel and Palestine. For...
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Gaza – Garry Keane, Andrew McConnell (2018)
June 16, 2024
by Nadin Mai
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The sea. I still remember the day when I saw the Atlantic Ocean for the first time. I often spent my school holidays at the...
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The Landscape and the Fury – Nicole Vögele (2024)
June 15, 2024
by Nadin Mai
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Les spectres de l’Europe, ce ne sont donc pas exactement ces gens « séculaires et sacrés », vêtus d’imperméables en plastiques et qui tentent de...
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IO Capitano – Matteo Garrone (2023)
March 23, 2024
by Nadin Mai
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We speak about colonialism, about the extermination of native peoples, about the enslavement of black people as if all of this was history, as if...
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Innocence – Guy Davidi (2022)
February 29, 2024
by Nadin Mai
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These words that I’m writing, I hope they don’t reach anyone. Words that won’t reach a world that would only persecute them. Tomorrow I’ll learn...
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The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer (2023)
February 13, 2024
by Nadin Mai
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I often wonder: when did we stop? When did we stop caring, when did we stop being human? When did we stop seeing in the...
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