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An immersive, sensorial plunge into a young Iraqi refugee’s desperation as he evades capture by anti-immigration vigilantes in a Bulgarian forest, filmed with taut suspense and anchored by a stand-out performance from Adam Ali.
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Posted by Jay Weissberg | Jan 10, 2022 | Festivals, Red Sea |
An immersive, sensorial plunge into a young Iraqi refugee’s desperation as he evades capture by anti-immigration vigilantes in a Bulgarian forest, filmed with taut suspense and anchored by a stand-out performance from Adam Ali.
Read MorePosted by Jay Weissberg | Jan 6, 2022 | Festivals, IDFA, Leipzig |
Workers in an outdated sugar cane factory in Guadeloupe read from the transcripts of an 1842 trial...
Read MorePosted by Jay Weissberg | Jan 6, 2022 | Festivals, IDFA, Leipzig |
The act of exile is never a single-generation event; its ever-mutating ramifications shift down...
Read MorePosted by Jay Weissberg | Jan 5, 2022 | Festivals, Red Sea, Spotlight |
The unsettled protagonists of Hamzah Jamjoom’s “Rupture” seem to be literally pulled through past, present and future in this Italian-inspired thriller in which a woman’s sanity is disturbed by her pregnancy and a malevolent concierge (played by Billy Zane) with his own unsavory baggage.
Read MorePosted by Jay Weissberg | Dec 31, 2021 | Featured, Festivals, Red Sea |
In his exploration of a man’s descent into madness during the present pandemic, director-actor Nejib Belkadhi makes a rare of-the-moment drama, inflected with humor and surrealism, that captures our unease in ways likely to outlast COVID’s grip on our psyches.
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