A journey into a strange new world. Director Qamar Abdulmalik relies on collective memories of advertisements, familiar yet artificial, to create the atmosphere of a “dream”. In that space, he renders the complex realities of nationality, country, and home.
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Childhood reflected through a black mirror, where commercialism prevails over innocence.
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The concept of death, in all its infinite complexity and simple finality, explored in a surreal and metaphorical way.
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The director and her sister journey through their neighborhood in the south of Jeddah. Celebrating today, the memories of yesterday, and looking forward towards what is to come.
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An intimate documentary about family, friendship, and home which draws together the love of autumn with nostalgia for home.
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An intoxicating audio-visual experience that makes us feel like a child, floating through emotions and into oblivion.
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An intoxicating audio-visual experience that makes us feel like a child, floating through emotions and into oblivion.
Continue readingThe Bears’ Famous Invasion of Sicily
This beautifully animated film, full of humor and surprise, is a touching and powerful allegory about the absurdity of war and the importance of family and community.The son of Léonce, King of Bears, has been kidnapped by hunters in the Sicilian mountains and his subjects are also starving after a harsh winter. The bears must […]
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Candice (Daisy Axon) is a twelve-year-old girl with boundless optimism and a family in disarray – but that won’t deter her, she knows “happiness takes time, but that doesn’t mean I can’t keep trying to plant the seed. ” Her family is struggling: Mum (Emma Booth) has been living with depression since the death of […]
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Stripped down, urgent, and bristling with energy, Sarah Gavron’s latest film tells the story of a teenage girl who has her foundations yanked out from under her. Shola (Bukky Bakray), known as Rocks, lives in a London council flat with her younger brother Emmanuel (D’angelou Osei Kissiedu) and their single mother. Mum is busy and […]
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