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Naila and the Uprising @DocHouse
24 August 2018, by Abena Clarke
Naila and the Uprising was a DocHouse screening.
It’s rare that a film makes me so angry that I can’t seem to describe it without a rant summarising it as ‘o the injustice!’ but that really was the effect of Julia Bacha’s film. Opening scene: mum, grown-up son, living room, baby pictures, embarrassment. This is familiar. That’s how a lot of Naila’s story feels: familiar. She’s just a regular woman, a passionate proactive patriot, mother, friend, wife, sister. She’s a women’s (...)
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Southern Belle de Nicolas Peduzzi
7 avril 2018, par Clotilde Couturier
Vous croyiez avoir compris Peter Pan ? Personne n’incarne davantage le mythe que Taelor et ses amis. Découvrez "Southern Belle" le 11 avril 2018 au Cinéma
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La Dream Team - Guillaume Coulaud pour A Voir A Lire
20 mars 2018, par Guillaume Coulaud
Un aperçu des récentes critiques de Guillaume Coulaud, nouveau membre de l’équipe
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"Vent du Nord" de Walid Mattar
4 mars 2018, par Clotilde Couturier
Un film proche de nous, qui fait rire, transporte et questionne, premier film d’un oeil prometteur, Vent du Nord est un film à voir.
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Play Your Gender at the Barbican
15 November 2017, by Onur Uz
When we talk about women in music, many of us can come up with a substantial list of female musicians we like. Many of us also don’t give much thought to the presence of women in the creative ‘process” behind their music, where a rooted misogynist culture is more apparent.
Play Your Gender, directed by Stephanie Clattenburg, really helps us pull back the curtain to see what is happening in the music industry, and how male-dominated it is when one tends to seek any female music producers (...)
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‘We are still here’: The Promise
2 May 2017, by Lucineh Danielian
’We are still here’ are the final words uttered by Oscar Isaac in The Promise, which depicts the harrowing story of the Armenian genocide, the very first genocide of the twentieth century, yet a genocide still denied to this very day.
Set in 1915 Constantinople, it opens with a pleasant and colourful vista of Armenian tradition and culture, before taking a much darker turn with the lead up to the genocide. This film undeniably represents so much more to many people than mere Hollywood (...)
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Get Out - "Timely representations of blackness"
11 April 2017, by Coco Green
In short, loved it. In long, ‘Get Out’ is everything you’ve heard and more. Consistently, whether I’m in book club, the bar, in a secret black people meeting at work, people who’ve seen it want to see it again. And those who have seen it twice offer to go with me to see it for a third time. The only thing armchair critics are wrong about is that the film is scary. Not sure who billed it as a horror film, but know that it is suspense and social commentary.
This film is a meet the parents (...)
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STRIKE A POSE - Q&A with the directors
11 February 2017, by morris
"1990, seven young dancers joined pop star Madonna on her most controversial world tour. Wild, talented and barely twenty, the dancers set out on the trip of a lifetime. Their journey was captured in Truth or Dare, one of the highest-grossing documentaries ever." 25 years after the tour, Strike a Pose, currently screening at Dochouse in London, finds out the journey the dancers set on, the issues that that the tour raised and how it altered their lives. We spoke to directors Ester Gould (...)
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Preview! Close Relations - a rounded picture of the conflict in Ukraine
17 January 2017, by Abla Kandalaft
Friday sees the release of Close Relations (Rodnye), Vitaly Manksy’s exploration of both sides of the recent conflict in Ukraine, shedding light on its impact on civilians in Ukraine, Russia and the separatist Donbass region. The documentary will be screened at Berta Dochouse from Fridau 20 January.
Trailer available here.
Synopsis: Critically acclaimed filmmaker Vitaly Mansky’s intimate new documentary finds him crisscrossing Ukraine in the wake of the Maidan uprising, which has left (...)
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SWISS 2016 OSCARS ENTRY SPECIAL SCREENING: IRAQI ODYSSEY
9 January 2017, by Abla Kandalaft
“A personal, insightful and beautifully made film” Huffington Post
“One of the most breathless documentaries in recent memory” The Village Voice
The film will be presented for the first time in the UK at a special screening in partnership with the Iraqi Association on Thursday, January 12th 2017 at Rivercourt Methodist Church at 6:30pm. A UK digital release will follow, date TBC.
Press release below!
Tracing the emigrations of his family over a century, this riveting documentary (...)