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Sunday, May 04, 2025

285. Dominican film director Nelson Carlos de Los Santos Arias' fourth feature film "Pepe" (2024) built on his own original screenplay: A fascinating, multi-layered cinematic work that uses a "talking" hippopotamus that is dead to present the history of African slaves in the Americas that curiously parallels the forced translocation of the hippo

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  .  W hat an unusual treat this film offers a perceptive and patient viewer! First, it is film is narrated for a substantive length of the ...
Sunday, December 15, 2024

284. Indian director Payal Kapadia’s 2nd feature film “All We Imagine as Light” (2024) in Malayalam, Hindi, and other Indian languages: An honest, sophisticated perspective of real India, intelligently presented

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  "There is always a feeling that I have to leave." -- an off-screen remark on the cloud of impermanence faced by an Indian immigr...
Tuesday, January 09, 2024

283. The Vietnamese director Thien An Pham’s debut feature film “Ben trong vo ken vang“ (Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell) (2023), based on his original screenplay: Searching for faith and meaning in life, following a recent personal tragedy

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        “Faith is what I am searching for ” --answers the film’s main character, Thien, to his toddler nephew’s question, on what is fa...
Sunday, December 17, 2023

The Polish film maestro Krzysztof Zanussi converses with Jugu Abraham on 14 Dec 2023 on the occasion of receiving his lifetime achievement award at IFFK, Trivandrum

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K rzysztof Zanussi (84) has won the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival for his film A Year of the Quiet Sun (1984), the Jury prize at t...
Sunday, November 12, 2023

282. The talented indigenous Australian filmmaker Ivan Sen’s 11th feature film “Limbo“ (2023), based on his original screenplay: More than a crime investigation, a study on the plight of the indigenous people in Australia, and gaining significance after the recent national vote rejecting additional power for the disadvantaged community

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    "Limbo is the continuation of themes I explored in my previous films. Those earlier films dealt with indigenous perspective through...