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film from the south

Laila, the mother of addicts

Laila at the Bridge takes us on a grueling journey to Kabul's gloomy drug environment, accompanied by a woman trying to save addicts.
Sevara Pan -

A different pop star portrait

"Why are you a problematic pop star?" Asks director Stephen Loveridge in the documentary about MIA The answers point far beyond the artist's uncompromising and sometimes challenging personality.
Aleksander Huser -

A cinematic prayer

Rithy Panh's cinematic excavation of the Cambodian genocide is entering its third decade, with at least five aesthetic attempts to approach it.
Daniel Glassman -

The airport you never leave

Tempelhof, the former German pride and architectural gem of an airport, has been given new life as a refugee reception.
Ellen Lande -

The Invisible Facebook Moderators

The global social media platforms 'cleaners' live in harsh communities and in relatively disordered conditions compared to those they clean up after.
Dieter Wieczorek -

With the child's eyes

Girls dressed as boys in Kabul and Tehran's underworld with sex, intoxication and rave music are portrayed through the child's gaze in the animated films The Breadwinner and Tehran Taboo.
Margareta Hruza -

Difficult and dreaming in Congo

An indomitable will meets the hopelessness of this portrait of a coal breeder in Congo.
Ellen Lande -

The generation that lost hope

Following his young protagonist for six years, the documentary Amal also paints a portrait of Egypt during a period marked by dramatic upheaval.
Aleksander Huser -

MOVIE FROM THE SOUTH: The waiting room of death

Shevaun Mizrahi's Distant Constellation follows the slow pace of the old home and teaches us what it means to grow old.
Kjetil Røed -
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