There's a haunting high quality to Ecuadorian Oscar entry "Behind the Haze," Sebastián Cordero's intimate docudrama on scaling Mount Everest. On one hand, Cordero's twinning of alpinism and filmmaking exposes spiritual resemblances to both undertakings. On the various other hand, his aesthetic structure exposes covert layers with its lo-fi visual--…
White cherry blossoms descend from the sky simply as a tragedy is about to alter the course of a uniquely non secular fishing neighborhood on the shores of Lake Peipsi, the physique of water that separates Estonia from Russia. Comparatively commonplace as that description might learn, writer-director Marko Raat’s “8…
There's a stilted, daytime soap high quality to Hany Khalifa's "Trip 404," Egypt's entry to the Academy Honors. It never ever fairly goes beyond these aesthetic and narrative features, however its story of a female leaving her past, en course to her Capital trip, is led by a deeply split…
It takes a while in "Lovely Night, Lovely Day" to get to Barren Island, an infamous chastening swarm in the previous Yugoslavia where no cells were required and armed guards relied on the sea to maintain those jailed in line. Nonetheless, a jail without bars discloses itself beforehand in writer-director…
One average evening in a working-class community of the Algerian resources, a questionable vehicle drives along a road where numerous youngsters play thoughtlessly. The vehicle driver tempts a girl to the home window and strongly draws her inside prior to repeling as the woman's bro views in misery. The disturbing…
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