Swiss filmmaker & Editor Caterina Mona’s feature-film directorial debut, Semret (2022) revolves around a traumatized immigrant single-mother and her teenage daughter. British Eritrean actor, poet, songwriter, and presenter Lula Mebrahtu gives a…
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Matter Out of Place, or its acronym MOOP refers to things or stuff that doesn’t belong to the immediate environment. Waste and debris like plastic, glass, metal, etc are largely defined as…
It’s a major challenge to deal with the subject of visual impairment in a movie or a documentary. Because cinema often uses people’s sight as a prominent tool to guide us through…
Jeff Rutherford’s feature-film directorial debut A Perfect Day for Caribou (2022) carries the spirit of Jim Jarmusch. On the outset, it seems to be telling the tale of an estranged father and…
On the surface, Soul of a Beast (2021) is one of the most conventional narratives to have resurfaced in the foreign cinema circuit after such a long time. The three folds of…
It would be too straightforward to brand ‘The Sadness’ as a zombie film. Despite the lack of official word, the film seems to be a re-imagining of Joe Lynch’s 2017 cult-classic ‘Mayhem’.…