In an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Dr. Flo Martin examines the Agnès Varda tradition of the documenteur, female cinema in post-revolutionary Tunisia and the contradictions of the country's ostensibly progressive gender politics in Kaouther Ben Hania's Challat of Tunis.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Dr. Jarmo Valkola explores how in Dawn, Laila Pakalnina's filmic choices indicate the mixing of personal, public, social, historical and cultural levels that establish not only a random collection of perspectives, but also an audiovisual orchestration of the labyrinths of narration.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Giuliana Minghelli explores N-Capace as a cross-section of Italian society that refracts in absentia a complex if puzzling image of a country, modern yet profoundly traditional and, above all, profoundly disoriented.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Marisa Winckowski discusses the gaps in pride and communication in the lives of three Norwegian women through a study of Dag Johan Haugerud's I Belong.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, historian Jim Carter discusses the unreliability of the "archive"—a hegemonic account of history—as evidenced by the narrators of Alessio Rigo de Righi & Matteo Zoppis’s feature debut Il Solengo.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Dr. Paula Halperin explores the diffuse and evasive nature of identity in four debut features vis-à-vis cinematic traditions of Italy's past.
Read MoreAt last year's Venice Film Festival, Artistic Director Alberto Barbera bemoaned the relative lack of young filmmaking talent in Italy, leading many to question if Italian cinema was in a rut. Rather than opining on the state of contemporary Italian cinema, Filmatique surveyed five young directors from Italy whose first films have all been well-received at prestigious international film festivals.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Dr. Maurizio Marinelli discusses Peng Fei Song’s film Underground Fragrance and the impact of China's rapid urbanization on society's forgotten souls.
Read MoreThe distinct approaches of four narrative works offer a lens through which to appreciate the complexities and beauty of contemporary Brazilian cinema. An exclusive essay for Filmatique's Spotlight on Brazil Series by Dr. Paula Halperin.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Marisa Winckowski discusses how Gentle and Our Love Story explore issues of religion and heteronormativity in Vietnam and South Korea, respectively, through the eyes of two young women.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, FIPRESCI Film Critic Gulnara Abikeyeva examines Rusudan Chkonia’s Keep Smiling within a second wave of female filmmaking in Georgia.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Dr. Rico Isaacs analyzes Adventure as a demonstration of how identity and nationhood can be encountered in the ordinariness of the everyday.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, FIPRESCI Film Critic Gulnara Abikeyeva explores Elchin Musaoglu's Nabat as a moral tale about the consequences of war, in which the protagonist becomes a metaphor for the motherland waiting for return of her sons.
Read MoreWhich way forward, and how to view the colonial past? Professor Elizabeth Papazian examines how while Nosir Saidov's debut feature engages thematically with Russian influence and the conflict between tradition and modern life, True Noon rejects easy answers.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, FIPRESCI Film Critic Gulnara Abikeyeva traces how a high level of integration between the natural and mystical worlds characterizes not only Mirlan Abdykalykov’s Heavenly Nomadic, but Kyrgyz cinema as a whole.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay for Filmatique, Iranian journalist Nojang Khatami explores the cinematic aims of empathy and perspective in Reza Mirkarimi's Today.
Read MoreDr. Elizabeth Papazian how cinematic slowness in Giorgi Ovashvili’s Corn Island might be read as a self-reflexive meditation on the potential of cinema itself for recuperating time.
Read MoreFilmmaker Ossama Mohammed discusses the process and impetus behind his film Silvered Water: Syria Self Portrait.
Read MoreIn an exclusive essay, Filmatique’s Head Curator Ursula Grisham examines the political valences of Xavier Dolan’s refusal to accept Cannes’s Queer Palm award for his film Laurence Anyways.
Read MoreFilmatique's Head Curator Ursula Grisham explores the parallel yet disparate economies of desire in Lorenzo Vigas's Desde allá and Robin Campillo's Eastern Boys.
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