As quoted by Sun Tzu in his book The Art of War, all warfare is based on deception. This speaks highly to the dichotomy of thought built by filmmaker Oksana Karpovych, using images of destruction and now day-to-day life experiences of the Ukrainian people overlaid with recorded phone conversations from Russian military members to family […]
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Once in a while, we ask ourselves the question of what happens to us when we pass away. Mauro Colombo asks that question during a stage in his life when he encounters the deaths of two people. The latter encounter is particularly haunting because Colombo temporarily brings the person back to life only to die […]
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Directed by MARTA GÓMEZ and PAULA IGLESIAS, Flying Hands centres around a school for deaf students in a remote part of Pakistan. Surrounded by picturesque mountains, the school was founded by Aniqa, a hearing mother who became an advocate for the deaf when her own daughter, Nargis, was born with hearing loss. When Aniqa gave […]
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Imagine getting all your exes into a room to talk about your past romances. What would they say? Do they remember the same moments as you, or in the same way? This is what director Chloé Barreau explores in her documentary Fragments of a Life Loved. Since she was 16 years old Barreau has kept […]
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“When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward.” This famous quote from Leonardo daVinci are words that personify the subjects of Fly, a new documentary from co-directors Shaul Schwarz and Christina Clusiau. These men and women are BASE jumpers, throwing themselves off high bridges, cliffs or […]
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Christmas films are either depressing or Hallmark-y, and other critics bill So This Is Christmas as the former. The documentary’s first ten minutes or so don’t feel as depressing, as it shows families making cakes. But let’s wait a few minutes more until a posh-y single Irish woman talks about her eating disorders. Or single […]
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Films don’t just bring images to life – they have the same effect for cultures or the people within said cultures. That may just be the objective in Death of a Saint, where its Afro-Dane director Patricia Bbaale Bandak‘s narration feels more like prayer. Specifically, the narration is there to speak to a mother who […]
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A film that documents life and love, Echo of You talks to seniors who have lost their lifelong partners. Each of filmmaker Zara Zerny’s subjects has a unique story to tell about their relationship. There are stories of love at first sight, of arguments, of infidelity. Not every relationship was perfect. But each and every […]
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When we first meet Gerel, the Mongolian single parent main protagonist of our story, she’s filled with so much hatred that it’s made her fanatical. Her grief after losing her husband working in a mine turned into an anti-Chinese fury. Gerel even forms her own nationalist group under the name “Bright Swastika”, the swastika being […]
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After a successful career performing bigger tricks and illusions, Canadian magician Shawn Farquhar made the decision to downsize. Now he concentrates on slight of hand, using what he calls the ‘Swiss army knife of magic’ – a deck of cards. It was when Farquhar started really looking at the pictures on the cards that his […]
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