Category: Films

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...

Films

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...

Films

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...

Films

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...

Films

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...

Films

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...

Films

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...

Films

20 Days in Mariupol – Mstyslav Chernov (2023)

February 9, 2024

by Nadin Mai

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When I was a teenager, I wanted to become a journalist, specifically a photo journalist, in conflict zones. It’s un unusual choice, given my age...