The End of Oak Street
The many references to Spielberg in David Robert Mitchell’s latest serve only as a reminder that Spielberg would more delicately handle the disparate tones of this dysfunctional-family-versus-dinosaurs saga.
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Yesterday the Eye Didn’t Sleep
Two Bedouin tribes on the Lebanon-Syria border fall out in Rakan Mayasi’s ominous, exquisitely mesmeric feature debut 'Yesterday the Eye Didn't Sleep', which reveals a major directorial voice.
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Promised Spaces
Respected cinematographer Ivan Markovic’s feature debut is a resplendent, rain-washed mood portrait of haves and have-nots in an unfinished luxury housing complex in Cambodia.
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All This Death
An elderly man in Beirut wrestles with grief and his own mortality in All This Death, Fadi Syriani's poignant and accomplished stop-motion animation.
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Do You Love Me
Filmmaker Lana Daher filmically mimics the chaos, confusion and complexity of her native Beirut’s recent history in a whirlwind of archival montage that is at once stunning and indecipherable.
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El icónico veterano español del cine Pedro Almodóvar ofrece más dolor que gloria en Amarga Navidad, un drama semi-autobiográfico y autocrítico -aunque de forma suave y delicada- en la etapa tardía de su carrera.
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A Fire There
Doc-maker Marlene Edoyan brings a sensitive and poetic, observational eye to Armenian dreams of past and future on the Georgian border.
