Ibelin
Computer games offer a severely disabled young man an emotionally rich alternative life in Norwegian director Benjamin Ree’s moving, visually impressive documentary ‘Ibelin’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Jan 22, 2024 | Festivals, Sundance 2024, Tromsø |
Computer games offer a severely disabled young man an emotionally rich alternative life in Norwegian director Benjamin Ree’s moving, visually impressive documentary ‘Ibelin’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Dec 20, 2023 | Featured, El Gouna 2023, Festivals |
Director Lucy Kerr’s feature debut ‘Family Drama’ is slender and elusive, but highly atmospheric and hauntingly strange.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Dec 19, 2023 | Featured, El Gouna 2023, Festivals |
Vicky Krieps gives a striking performance as a racist Arizona border patrol guard in Belgian director Phillippe Van Leeuw’s otherwise underwhelming contemporary frontier western ‘The Wall’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Dec 18, 2023 | El Gouna 2023, Featured, Festivals |
Gaining extra urgency in the light of current events, British-Palestinian director Farah Nabulsi’s debut feature ‘The Teacher’ is a well-intentioned but flawed drama set in the occupied West Bank
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Dec 16, 2023 | El Gouna 2023, Festivals |
French-Iraqi director Leila Albayaty explores her own complex cultural roots, painful family tensions and buried traumatic memories in her emotionally raw docu-musical ‘From Abdul to Leila’.
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