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Still image from 'The Mother of All Lies,' showing a closeup shot of half of an old woman's face. She is holding a figurine covering her mouth.
“I Write Stories Using Light”: Asmae El Moudir Discusses ‘The Mother of All Lies’
Moroccan filmmaker Asmae El Moudir (2020’s The Postcard ) grew up in a world in which images were forbidden. She had no childhood photos (save for one
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Tayssir Chikhaoui, Olfa Hamrouni, Eya Chikhaoui
Reenactments and Reversals: The Plot Twist in Kaouther Ben Hania’s ‘Four Daughters’
We first meet our protagonists seated together on a brightly lit set, their figures visible in the gap between a pair of dark curtains. Two hands come
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Two young girls playing together against a backdrop of mountains, weeds, and mounds of dirt.
“Cinema Can Be a Mode for Grieving”: Elaine McMillion Sheldon Discusses ‘King Coal’
Though staying in her home region of Appalachia, documentarian Elaine McMillion Sheldon departs from her vérité beginnings in her latest feature, King
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A red horizontal stripe runs through an image of a man standing on an icy landscape wielding a harpoon towards the water. Photo courtesy of ‘Nanook of the North.’
The 100-Year Stain of 'Nanook of the North'
By May 2000, the fear of an impending apocalypse dimmed. The Y2K glitch, the much-hyped computer error that supposedly stemmed from the inability of
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