#Jessica beshir

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Faya Dayi (2021) dir. Jessica Beshir cine. Jessica Beshir

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Faya Dayi (2021) dir. Jessica Beshir

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Faya Dayi (2023)

Director & DoP - Jessica Beshir

"There is nothing like your own country, it's true. The love you get from your mother, can you get the same love from your stepmother? It's the same with a country that is not your own. To leave your country is a very, very serious thing."

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Cinematic Parallels

Nuovo Cinema Paradiso (1988), dir. Giuseppe Tornatore

Faya Dayi (2021), dir. Jessica Beshir

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films directed by women coming to the Criterion Collection over the next few months

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FAYA DAYI:

A hypnotic doc

How khat affects daily lives

In Harar’s village

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cow 🐮

from faya dayi (2021)

dir. jessica beshir

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Currently Watching

SHORT FILMS from THE CRITERION CHANNEL

FANTASMAS André Novais Oliveira Brazil, 2010

HE WHO DANCES ON WOOD Jessica Beshir USA, 2016

THE CRIMINALS Serhat Karaaslan Turkey, 2021

SIERRA Sander Joon Estonia, 2022

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MUBI Release UK Trailer For Jessica Beshir's Faya Dayi

MUBI Release UK Trailer For Jessica Beshir's Faya Dayi @mubiuk #FayaDayi #JessicaBeshir #WorldCinema

After releasing a short clip last month, MUBI have finally released the official UK Trailer for Jessica Beshir’s striking Docu-Drama Faya Dayi which will be released this week in UK cinemas. The film is a spiritual journey into the highlands of Harar, Ethiopia. We become immersed in the rituals of khat, a leaf Sufi Muslims  have chewed for centuries for religious meditations and Ethiopia’s most…

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Tepitome’s Favourite Films of 2022 (so far...)

1. Nope (Dir. Jordan Peel) 2. Faya Dayi (Dir. Jessica Beshir) 3. Decision to Leave (Dir. Park Chan-wook) 4. The Outfit (Dir. Graham Moore) 5. The Batman (Dir. Matt Reeves) 6. Official Competition (Dir. Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn) 7. Vortex (Dir. Gaspar Noé) 8. Alcarràs (Dir. Carla Simón) 9. The House (Dir. Emma De Swaef, Paloma Baeza & Marc James Roels) 10. Paris, 13th District (Dir. Jacques Audiard)

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Faya Dayi (2021) dir. Jessica Beshir cine. Jessica Beshir

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Top ten new-to-me films of 2022:

1. Faya Dayi (Jessica Beshir, 2021) 2. Joan of Arc of Mongolia (Ulrike Ottinger, 1989) 3. August at Akiko's (C.M. Yogi, 2018) 4. Erie (Kevin Jerome Everson, 2010) 5. My Favorite Software Is Being Here (Alison Nguyen, 2021) 6. MS Slavic 7 (Sofia Bohdanowicz, 2019) 7. Drive My Car (Ryusuke Hamaguchi, 2021) 8. India Song (Marguerite Duras, 1975) 9. Thing From The Factory By The Field (Joel Potrykus, 2022) 10. Just Don't Think I'll Scream (Frank Beauvais, 2019)

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One Movie From Every Country pt. 3

Today's film I watched was an unconventional documentary, focused on the poetry of political strife in Ethipoia, Jessica Beshir's Faya dayi.

Faya dayi is a hard film to describe. It's a documentary, but not in the traditional way of having people sit in front of a camera and talk. People do that, but it's not the focus of the film. The focus is on the dream-like imagery and the feelings you get from them. There are sort of stories in the film, such as the multiple young people who seem desperate to escape the country, but the movie (if you ask me) is much more interested in painting an image of Ethiopia and the effect of khat (a native stimulant and Ethiopia's cash crop) on the country and its peoples.

I did, admittedly, have a touch time watching the film though. Since it was a bit unconventional and much more imagery based, there was a lot of time where there were no dialogue or speech. The music and the pictures were really captivating, but I'm not gonna lie and say I didn't get a little bored.

This is definitely a film I'd recommend for just the imagery alone, but if you're interested in hearing some stories from native Ethiopians, I'd recommend it for that as well!

7/10

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April 2023 Media Breakdown

Movies:

By the Sad Sea Waves (1917) - Alfred J. Goulding

The Map of Tiny Perfect Things (2021) - Ian Samuels

This Beautiful Fantastic (2016) - Simon Aboud

Un certain matin (A Certain Morning) (1991) - Fanta Régina Nacro

Hairat (2017) - Jessica Beshir

Isole di fuoco (Islands of Fire) (1955) - Vittorio De Seta

Captain America: The First Avenger (2011) - Joe Johnston

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) - Anthony & Joe Russo

Dune (1984) - David Lynch

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves (2023) - John Francis Daley & Jonathan M. Goldstein

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) - Hayao Miyazaki

The Big Lebowski (1998) - Joel & Ethan Coen

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) - Ang Lee

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) - David Lynch

TV Shows:

N/A

Books: Completed

Trick Mirror: Reflections on Self-Delusion (2019) - Jai Tolentino

The Dragon Republic (2019) - R.F. Kuang

Hamnet (2020) - Maggie O’Farrell

Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America (2020) - Marcia Chatelain

Legends & Lattes (2022) - Travis Baldree

Books: In Progress

The Strange (2023) - Nathan Ballingurd | 38%

The Burning God (2020) - R.F. Kuang | 16%

Top 3 Albums:

the record - boygenius (2023) | indie rock

labour (single) - Paris Paloma (2023) | folk/indie rock

Hamp: The Legendary Decca Recordings of Lionel Hampton - Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra (1996) | jazz

Crafts:

Still working on the scrap yarn blanket

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HEROIN (2017):

An artist’s routine

Work inspired by his ex

Free Will: illusion?