The New African Cinema at the Ca Foscari Short Film Festival
The three curated films offer female-centric views of the world and are full of imagination and ultimately love.
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77. Venezia review: Paolo Conte – Via con Me (2020)
Narrated by Luca Zingaretti – known to world audiences as Inspector Montalbano – Verdelli’s film is a conventional portrait with featured testimonials from contemporaries
Review: Final Account (2020)
The theme of ordinary people carrying out the atrocities of the Nazi regime has paradoxically been done to death and, yet with the mother of fascists once more pregnant, in urgent need of another telling.
Review: Oeconomia (2020)
What is money and where does it come from? It seems like a simple enough question, but in Carmen Losmann’s new film it becomes increasingly obvious that even those at the highest reaches of international finance:
Film Review: Me and the Cult Leader (2020)
The documentary assumes a level of knowledge about the Sarin attacks which presumably won’t be an issue for its domestic audience, but non-Japanese viewers will find themselves googling to find out more.
Jeffrey Epstein: Filthy Rich
If you don’t know who Epstein was, he was like Gordon Gecko had fucked Gary Glitter.
Review: Life As a B-Movie: Piero Vivarelli (2019) Fabrizio Laurenti, Niccolò Vivarelli
Filmmakers Fabrizio Laurenti and Niccolò Vivarelli have created a vibrant and entertaining documentary which is as colourful as Piero Vivarelli’s life.
