Passing Dreams
A stubborn boy searches all over Palestine for a lost pigeon in ‘Passing Dreams’, Rashid Masharawi’s unexpectedly gentle, non-confrontational allegory about the state of the country.
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Author: Deborah Young
The Return of the Cairo International Film Festival
200 miles from the Egypt-Gaza border, the city on the Nile prepares to open the curtain.
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Skin in Spring
Small in scale but big in its ambition to show how an ordinary woman reinvents herself by learning to express her desires, the Colombian film ‘Skin in Spring’ is observational fiction at its most delicate and intriguing
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Maybe It’s True What They Say about Us
A psychiatrist is put to the test when her daughter, the member of a cult, is arrested for killing her baby in the spooky but unconvincing Chilean-Argentine drama ‘Maybe It’s True What They Say About Us’.
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Hard Truths
Mike Leigh returns from a lengthy excursion shooting period films to the kind of chamber piece he excels in, in ‘Hard Truths’, a small story about family dysfunction magnified into high drama by Mariane Jean-Baptiste’s formidable lead performance as a wife and mother going over the edge.
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