Leila’s Brothers – Saeed Roustaee (2022)
A metaphor came to mind towards the end of Saeed Roustaee’s film Leila’s Brothers; that of quicksand. I couldn’t help but think of the film’s...
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Category: Films
Burial – Emilija Škarnulytė (2022)
May 11, 2023
by Nadin Mai
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When I saw Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s superb documentary Homo Sapiens, I reflected upon the legacy we, Homo sapiens, would leave behind. Our legacy isn’t as magnificent...
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Triangle of Sadness – Ruben Östlund (2022)
March 17, 2023
by Nadin Mai
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There was a moment in Ruben Östlund’s new film Triangle of Sadness when I needed to get up and walk around. It felt as though...
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Matter out of Place – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (2022)
March 10, 2023
by Nadin Mai
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The ocean. Clear blue-turquoise water. A beautiful beach, sand whose softness one can feel by simply looking at it. A palm tree. It’s quiet, it’s...
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Holy Spider – Ali Abbasi (2022)
February 8, 2023
by Nadin Mai
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It’s been quiet around Iran for many weeks now. When the young Mahsa Amin died at the hands of the country’s moral police, the support...
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Year in Review 2022
December 22, 2022
by Nadin Mai
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The last time I published a post on this blog was to inform you all about a rather unpleasant development in my mind. I’m using...
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Longing in times of social distancing
October 11, 2022
by Nadin Mai
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The following was written for a project filmmaker Saeed Taji Farouky, who dreamt of putting together a magazine he would call MEAT and which would...
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Feathers – Omar El Zohairy (2021)
September 14, 2022
by Nadin Mai
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I’m thinking of Wang Bing. I’m thinking of Pedro Costa. I’m thinking of Tarkovsky’s Stalker who gets up from his bed in the morning. I’m...
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A Vanishing Fog – Augusto Sandino (2021)
September 5, 2022
by Nadin Mai
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How can we understand what is happening around us? How can we make sense of Planet Earth burning in front of our eyes? Can we...
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A Night of Knowing Nothing – Payal Kapadia (2021)
August 24, 2022
by Nadin Mai
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Two or three weeks after the beginning of the Russian war in Ukraine, I fell into a deep depression, which I haven’t quite left behind...
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