Lumene: Privatisation
In the complex and thought-provoking essay film, Lumene: Privatisation, David Shongo reflects on the commodification of cultural memory and the lasting impacts of insidious colonial impositions.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Oct 11, 2023 | Festivals, Leipzig 2023, Verdict Shorts |
In the complex and thought-provoking essay film, Lumene: Privatisation, David Shongo reflects on the commodification of cultural memory and the lasting impacts of insidious colonial impositions.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Oct 10, 2023 | Festivals, Leipzig 2023, Verdict Shorts |
The chill is both atmospheric and emotional in Zima, a scratchy, punkish, magical realist animation about life in a quiet, snow-laden fishing village.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Oct 9, 2023 | Festivals, Leipzig 2023, Verdict Shorts |
An ostensibly simplistic documentary about a flat in Kyiv, Three Windows on South West uses incidental memories to paint a fleeting collective portrait of another time.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 5, 2023 | Festivals, VENICE 2023, Verdict Shorts |
The inconsistencies of adolescence are the challenges of burgeoning womanhood are central to Leila Basma’s knotty and intoxicating coming-of-age short, Sea Salt.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 5, 2023 | Festivals, VENICE 2023, Verdict Shorts |
Unspoken traumas are made manifest in Shirin Sohani and Hossein Molayemi’s beautifully drawn and profoundly moving animated allegory, In the Shadow of the Cypress.
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