Many films have documented the regret and deep sorrow engulfing unwilling perpetrators of violence. The representation mostly consists of a tearful subject, sappy background music that intersperses between a callous voiceover and…
Tag: Locarno
Nigerian folklore serves as the fuel for ‘Juju Stories’, a three-part anthology film at the Locarno Festival. Directors Michael Omonua, Abba Makama, and CJ Obasi, respectively, helm and write the three stories…
Everyone goes through that phase in life when nothing seems to be going your way. Without any redeeming elements in your day or near future, you just try to cling on to…
Phil Tippett’s ‘Mad God’ squarely falls in the league of the rare posse of films that redefine and stretch the bounds of filmmaking. It would not be amiss to put it in…
Closing Time opens a time portal to the lyrical mundanity of quotidian characters in the stillness of the night. Highly meditative and sedately paced, Closing Time is a poetry in motion, an…
Who is to decide when it comes to faith? Who makes the final decision when a body aches; both from the inside and outside? In Germinal Roaux’s sophomore feature ‘Fortuna’, a fourteen-year-old girl from…
