Mantas Kvedaravičius's Mariupolis 2, presented at the Cannes Film Festival mere weeks after the director's death, is a collection of the rough footage he left behind.
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Reviews of the Oscar-shortlisted short docs Hunger Ward, Colette, A Concerto Is a Conversation, Hysterical Girl, and Abortion Helpline, This Is Lisa.
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Notturno is observational cinema at in its most provocative and poetic form. A film doesn’t need any words when the images are so strong.
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“You are going to roam the Russian border zone with a bunch of cameras? GOOD IDEA.” Travels between Latvia and Russia weave a Latvian-Canadian photographer into a landscape of past and present.
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