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Night of the Rings is another movie presented at New Horizons Festival that I want to talk about. La Nuit des Rois has clearly nothing to do with Twelfth Night, Or What You Will written by Shakespeare yet the title was translated into French as La Nuit des rois, ou Ce que vous voudrez ;) Anyways, the film is truly exceptional. It's a drama film, directed by Philippe Lacôte and released our favorite 2020. It's a co-production of companies from France, Côte d'Ivoire, Canada and Senegal. It was selected as the Ivorian entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 93rd Academy Awards.  Credits: TIFF So basically, it tells a story about a young pickpocket called Roman (direct translation: Novel) (Bakary Koné) who is sent to the MACA prison in Abidjan. In MACA, being one of the most overcrowded prisons in West Africa, in order to survive you need to make up a story all night long. Aging and sick, Barbe Noir (direct translation: Black Beard) is increasingly contested. To...

T his Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection is the second film I'm going to talk about. It was directed and written by  Mosotho ( The Sotho people, or Basotho, are a Bantu ethnic group of Southern Africa who speak Sesotho) Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese born in 1980, Hlotse, Lesotho. He’s is a self-taught filmmaker. As a co-creator of Barefoot Cinema and Mokoari collective, he promotes radical auteur cinema as well as the achievements of Third Cinema (Third Cinema is a Latin American film movement that started in the 1960s–70s which decries neocolonialism, the capitalist system, and the Hollywood model of cinema as mere entertainment to make money [1] ). He made several films as the latter meet with an ever better response. In This Is Not a Burial, It’s a Resurrection we measure tradition against modernity. Director gave the voice to those, who usually remain silent. Mantoa, the main character, is a widow mourning the death mainly of her recently deceased son, but she has basically los...

Seconds become minutes, minutes become hours, and hours become “Days,” and I'm lost in it since it's so difficult to keep up with the pace of adding posts. "Days" (2020) is one of a kind. It is vain to search for subtitles. In fact, this Thai drama is devoid of them. It features little dialogue, but it doesn't matter anymore. "Days",  directed by  Tsai Ming-liang ,  is about the touch. How much do we need it? Kang, one of two heroes, leaves the huge house in the village and goes to town in search of some kind of relief. Non, on the other hand, lives in a small apartment in the city. They meet. Oops, spoiler. Easy, this film is not about a mysterious, intricate plot. It's about loneliness, calm and tentative human connection. How this meeting would affect them? If you're a fan of slow cinema, go, and watch it. It's worth it.

So, New Horizons, international film festival has been on for the last 10 days. We could enjoy highlights  from all over the world - from debutants to undisputed film masters. The festival gives an opportunity to take a closer look at the most interesting places on the cinematic map of the world and to discover films which are difficult to be found in regular distribution. Today, I'm going to share with you one of the film I find interesting to see this or the following year.   FAUNA,  Nicolás Pereda Is this a movie about a casual visit to the parents? Not really. Apart from the main plot concerning on this weird family, there is another one that is introduced in an unusual way. The film starts with the siblings visiting their parents, where the presence of the daughter's boyfriend causes an excitement since he appeared in a TV series. He's trying to buy cigarettes and because there's no in the store, he's trying to bargain with an old guy who turns ou...

On this blog, I'll will be talking about some current events and news th at  all will be  subjectively chosen. Since I'm a passionate observer of  the  reality, this blog will serve as a tool which allows some information to be finally heard, since there's sometimes no time and place to be presented on the mainstream media. Along with these news, I'll be sharing my delights which I find worth seeing, reading or hearing. I hope you'll enjoy this trip as we all cannot travel freely these days :)