
Marina D. Richter
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Review: After Two Hours, Ten Minutes Had Passed (2019), by Steffen Goldkamp
Every day is the same in the juvenile detention center Hahnöfersand situated on the Elbe river island in Lower Saxony. The time drags so painfully slow that it really feels like…

Review: Superheroes Without Superpowers (2019), by Beatrice Baldacci
Right at the beginning of her intimate family portrait Superheroes Without Superpowers the Italian director Beatrice Baldacci contemplates about what makes a person unique

Review: Kingdom, Come (2019), by Sean Robert Dunn
In his third short film Kingdom, Come, Sean Robert Dunn plunges in the realm of disturbing human drives that can destroy the lives of many people with one blow.

Review: Give Up the Ghost (2019), by Zain Duraie
Procreating is all in some societies, and the man’s ability to have children is a proof of his unshakeable masculinity. Even a bare possibility that a man might be sterile is practically absent from people’s minds,

Review: Roqaia (2019) by Diana Saqeb Jamal
Roqaia is traumatized by the suicide attack, but that is something that the immediate environment refuses to acknowledge

Review: Delphine (2019), by Chloé Robichaud
There are couple of things that stick to one’s memory after watching Chloé Robichaud’s short Delphine based on Nathalie Doummar’s play adapted for the screen:

Review: Sand (2019), by Kim Kyung-rae
Two young lovers wake up one morning after a night involving a big spliff, and Sung-min (James Chung) immediately starts looking for the proof they had protected sex.

Review: The Diver (2019), by Jamie Helmer & Michael Leonard
The main character of Jamie Helmer’s & Michael Leonard’s film The Diver, Callan (Nicholas Denton) isn’t someone you’d like to befriend and even less to have as an enemy.