Seven Winters in Tehran – Steffi Niederzoll (2023)
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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Tag: documentary
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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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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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...
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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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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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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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The Metamorphosis of Birds – Catarina Vasconcelos (2020)
May 26, 2022
by Nadin Mai
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Earth is the centre of the universe. Everything else revolves around this beautiful planet that carries so much life, so much beauty, so much mystery....
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