Review: Hello Ahma (2019)
Five-year-old Michelle is grieving after her grandmother who has recently passed away. To cope with the old woman’s absence, she believes her to be reincarnated in her pet turtle.
Five-year-old Michelle is grieving after her grandmother who has recently passed away. To cope with the old woman’s absence, she believes her to be reincarnated in her pet turtle.
If there is a feel of renaissance painting in Jaro Minne’s drama A Sister and A Brother (Da-Dzma), this comes from the often used one-point perspective that lets us peek through the doors standing ajar or curtain-clad windows.
A terminally ill single father is feverishly trying to provide his son with a loving home before he dies.
For the most of people outside of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the name of Dino Pečenković doesm’t ring any bells. His involvement with Mevlid Jašarević’s terrorist attack on the American Embassy in Sarajevo, for which he was also tried as an accomplice, is more of a footnote.
Mizaru was the thesis film by Sudarshan Suresh, awarded Best Film at Columbia University School of the Arts’ last year, and this film happens to be one of the strongest contenders in Dokufest’ s International Short Film Competition.
Last year’s Locarno contender which is currently screening in the International Shorts Competition at Dokufest, is a sickening story of violence “provoked” by a young woman’s reaction on catcalling and insults.
Shot analogue on 16mm and interestingly framed in the vast terminal space whose modern architecture gets as much significance in the story-plotting as the titular character’s indecisiveness, Allamand’s drama is a visual stunner.
Erenik Beqiri wrote a sharp as a knife script about a family of two men who are ready to do anything for one another, but acting on their own impulse, they are actually doing a disservice to each other.
‘Outside the Oranges Are Blooming’ premiered at the last year’s edition of Dok.Leipzig, before opening domestically at Doc.Lisboa (it is a Portuguese-Serbian co-production). Currently it plays at DokuFest’s online edition in Balkan competition.
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