Review: Homelands (2020)
Homelands is structured in two principal acts, one set during the winter season and the other at the time of a less busy summer, with a couple of archive material interludes along the way.
Homelands is structured in two principal acts, one set during the winter season and the other at the time of a less busy summer, with a couple of archive material interludes along the way.
Raw in its appearance and genuine regarding the motivations of all the people involved, Once Upon a Youth is a multi-layered work of art that goes deep in painting a portrait of a unique person, a landscape of a certain place in a certain time, the philosophical aspects of friendship and the generation that tried to do something against all odds.
As a project, ‘Speak So I Could See You’ was developed over the course of years, and the richly textured, layered, top-quality work shows.
Like their relationship towards the life and the civilization, Vinka and her mother Obrenija remain completely untouched by the fact that someone is filming them in order to tell their story.
Hosseini tries and succeeds to penetrate deep into the consequences of one of the bloodiest conflicts of the 20th century that are still colouring the lives of the people on the both sides of the border.
Montenegro is often portrayed as a patriarchal, macho society where being gay is regarded as an embarrassment for himself and his family, but Vojvodić and his co-writer Maja Todorović are taking a step further to expose the gerantocracy and the oppression that the elders impose on the younger generations as the core of the problem.
Joyful and light-hearted, Summer Fasting is a perfect summer short film. The tempo is vivid, but it never feels forced, while Ziane takes an occasional breather to let the audience reflect about the things in the front (the friendship expressed through solidarity and fooling around together) and in the background (how it feels to be coming from the working class, or Muslim background, or both, in contemporary France)
Shot in São Tomé and Príncipe, a small island country off the coast of Central Africa, this Berlin-based production is clearly focused on the anthropological observations of life and work, but without the post-colonial sensationalism and overt exoticism. The film premiered at the new Flash competition of FID Marseille.
The influences Brès looks up to are numerous and pretty clear to identify, from nature-themed to observational school of documentary filmmaking, with a dash of attraction of the fiction films.
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