Documentaries’ sole purpose isn’t to convey certain information or to educate the audience. It can artfully put us into the emotional, mind space of its subjects that the usual sociopolitical or journalistic…
Locarno
Lebanese writer-director Ghassan Salhab’s Locarno-premiered film The River (2021) is the last of his landscape trilogy, the previous two films being The Mountain (2011) and The Valley (2014). While I’m not entirely…
It’s 1962, the time when Indian borders were witnessing the Sino-Indian war. Bureaucrat IPS Rajesh Kumar Sinha is typically busy with his government job. His wife is involved with her modest duties.…
Many films have documented the regret and deep sorrow engulfing unwilling perpetrators of violence. The representation mostly consists of a tearful subject, sappy background music that intersperses between a callous voiceover and…
Nigerian folklore serves as the fuel for ‘Juju Stories’, a three-part anthology film at the Locarno Festival. Directors Michael Omonua, Abba Makama, and CJ Obasi, respectively, helm and write the three stories…
Who doesn’t love watching the clouds? On a warm summer day when you can see random patterns and faces, or the dark clouds hovering around and signaling rain. Finnish filmmaker Tuija Halttunen…