Set on the island of Madagascar, the experimental Zaho Zay is a hybrid documentary, drama and poetic reverie that defies paraphrase. Co-directed by French Malagasy filmmaker Maéva Ranaïvojaona, and Austrian filmmaker Georg
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Jessica Beshir’s lyrical Faya Dayi and Daniel Kötter’s formalist Rift Finfinnee, two oddly similar films set in an Ethiopia struggling with the upheavals of urbanization and industrialization, are almost excellent movies. Both
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The small city of Gao, in northeastern Mali, is a gateway for tens of thousands of African migrants attempting to make their way across the Sahara to the Mediterranean and Europe. Considered
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Reviews of Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go For It, Bring Your Own Brigade, Faya Dayi, and Playing with Sharks from the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
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This sombre but reflective verité-style film gives voice to survivors of the Six-Day War, which ravaged the director’s hometown of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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