A river runs, turns, erases, replaces – Shengze Zhu (2021)
It’s been 18 months now that we are living with a virus that put our world upside down. Even though we are aware that we’re...
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Tag: death
Iro – Hadi Mohaghegh (2018)
July 27, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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What should I do? Should I go or not go? An old man mumbles these words into his beard. With a slight hunchback and visibly...
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Ancient Soul – Alvaro Gurrea (2021)
June 23, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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I am often amazed at the films that are being made across the world. They can be so simple and yet so powerful. Slow films,...
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Red Moon Tide – Lois Patino (2019)
January 6, 2021
by Nadin Mai
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The moon is a monster, it devours time. Rubio. A fisherman. He loved the sea, he loved the freedom when heading out with his boat....
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In between dying — Hilal Baydarov (2020)
September 19, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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To wait is utter darkness. When we wait, time is suspended. Often, we wait for something that makes us nervous or anxious, something that makes...
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Knife in the Clear Water – Xuebo Wang (2016)
March 9, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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In 2011, Béla Tarr presented his last feature film, The Turin Horse. The film, in which he had stripped everything bare, contains a lot of...
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The suspended step of the stork – Theo Angelopoulos (1991)
November 13, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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There is perhaps no better time for beginning to watch Theo Angelopoulos’ Border trilogy than now. On Saturday, we commemorated the 30th anniversary of the...
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Vitalina Varela – Pedro Costa (2019)
October 28, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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It is difficult, if not impossible, to think of a woman in film, who has such a magical, such an overpowering aura around her as...
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Afternoon – Tsai Ming-liang (2016)
August 6, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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Does this conversation have to be so miserable? Tsai Ming-liang asks. His two-hour long conversation with his fetish actor Lee Kang-sheng, Afternoon, will perhaps remain...
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Escaping time
June 24, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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I didn't expect my thinking about the possibility of escaping time. It's one of those age-old science-fiction dreams that people have. Time travel is perhaps...
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