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Fallen Leaves - Aki Kaurismäki

So gentle. So weirdly built in time.

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Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry

A wonderful watch, especially the end.

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Les Indésirables - Ladj Ly

Not great, not bad.

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Argentina 1985 - Santiago Mitre

So relatable, from a Syrian framework...

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Animalia - Sofia Alaoui

I WAS ECSTATIC! What a film! What a ride! Sensation-based, beautiful to the eyes, very different in its structure, fantasy but asking extremely important questions. A wonderful, wonderful watch.

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The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent - Tom Gormican

A lot better than I expected, really fun, smart, meta, and more relatable than I would have thought

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Fitzcarraldo - Werner Herzog

Unsure I liked the film but I do like Werner Herzog's insanity

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Our Heedless Wars - Randa Chahal Sabag

THIS FILM IS A GEM AND SHOULD BE SHARED WIDELY

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Inshallah Walad - Amjad Al Rasheed

Beautifully complex and very resistant in a quiet way. Smartly written as it's also funny. كلنا بالخرا سوا

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Al Gharib - Ameer Fakher Eldin

Failed hero, I didn't have much empathy for him but as my friend said, we go to see films in order to experience things and people we might dislike...! Very poetic, but quite male-focused, a bit of a tortured soul - LOVED the q&a though

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Souad - Ayten Amin

Interestingly similar to a documentary in the way it is shot, set inside and we feel as claustrophobic as the characters. Very socially representative... long rhythm, probably also similar to real-life-rhythm

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Blue Caftan - Maryam Touzani

A beautifully complex portrayal of dynamics where the characters all try their best to be kind to each other.

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Hong Kong Family - Hing Weng Eric Tsang

A bit too close to home.

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Red Cliff - John Woo

I mean, that was epic. And Orlando Bloom...!

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God's Own Country - Francis Lee

Cliché and orientalist. Liked the actors though.

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Hiroshima mon amour - Alain Resnais

I didn't appreciate it nearly enough first time I watched it. From a review:

"Narrative memory, which is a core of historical representation, both on paper and on film, transforms the past as a condition of retaining the past"

"It's as horrible to forget as it is to remember"

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Fragments From Heaven - Adnane Baraka