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Exotica, Erotica, Etc

Exotica, Erotica, Etc is appropriately titled. The images are stunning, exotic, and demonstrate the enormity of Earth. A…

By Charlie Bury
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Fifty

Fifty records like a ropey TV drama set for release on a channel facing liquidation. It has no…

By Charlie Bury
LFF

Victoria

Shot in one continuous take, actor turned director Sebastian Schipper has created in Victoria a very different kind…

By Natasha Furlong
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Life is more burden than joy for Sentaro (Masatoshi Nagase). He has never had an appetite for sweets;…

By Friederike Trumpa
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Ruben Guthrie

For many countries, alcoholism is not an individual addiction but a national problem. This issue has been addressed…

By Daniel Engelke
LFF

Under Electric Clouds

Transporting viewers to a melancholy snowscape this autumn is Alexei German’s Under Electric Clouds. A Russian language film,…

By Sarah Sutton
LFF

Sembene!

Often hailed as the father of African cinema, Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene was, and still is, one of…

By Natasha Furlong
Movie

We’ll Never Have Paris

Paris is the city of romance and the site for Humphrey Bogart’s affair with Ingrid Bergman in Casablanca…

By Alejandra Arrieta
Movie

Censored Voices

This film uses documentary footage, vintage news reels and the tape recordings from various Kibbutzim (Jewish communal settlements)…

By Yassine Senghor