Books & Articles Films Notes on the End of a World – The Films of Béla Tarr December 2, 2024 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More
Films Green Border – Agnieszka Holland (2023) September 15, 2024 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More
Uncategorised Seven Winters in Tehran – Steffi Niederzoll (2023) September 1, 2024 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More
Films No Other Land – Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham (2024) June 20, 2024 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More
Films Gaza – Garry Keane, Andrew McConnell (2018) June 16, 2024 by Nadin Mai 2 Comments 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... Read More
Films The Landscape and the Fury – Nicole Vögele (2024) June 15, 2024 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More
Films IO Capitano – Matteo Garrone (2023) March 23, 2024 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More
Films Innocence – Guy Davidi (2022) February 29, 2024 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More
Films The Zone of Interest – Jonathan Glazer (2023) February 13, 2024 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More
Films 20 Days in Mariupol – Mstyslav Chernov (2023) February 9, 2024 by Nadin Mai No Comments 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... Read More