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Agent
of Happiness

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 12 2024
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Directors – Arun Bhattarai, Dorottya Zurbó – 2023 – Bhutan, Hungary – 94m **** A civil servant travels around Bhutan assessing individual people’s happiness even as his personal life begs the questions whether he, himself, is truly happy – out in UK cinemas on Friday, July 12th Judging by the opening montage of cloudy and […]

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The Land
Where Winds
Stood Still
(Zhel Toqtaghan Zher)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date November 16 2023
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Where Winds
Stood Still
(Zhel Toqtaghan Zher)
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Director – Ardak Amirkulov – 2023 – Kazakhstan – Cert. none – 108m ***** A Kazakh mother made homeless by Soviet policy must protect her two sons in the harsh environment of the Steppes – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition at the 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival An historical, period, survival movie. In […]

Tags 1930s, 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, 27th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Critics' Picks Competition, agricultural production, Ardak Amirkulov, barren, cannibalism, cavalry, climate, collectivisation, Critics' Picks Competition, danger, disenfranchised, eating livestock, Ersin Kalybaeva, extreme weather, family breakdown, famine, force, gruel, gunmen, home, homeless, hope, hunger, hungry, ill, illness, Kazakh, Kazakhstan, knife, land, landscape, levelling, Meirzhan Musakozha, mistrust, mother, motherhood, mothers and children, nomad, nomadic, peasants, PÖFF, PÖFF 2023, PÖFF 2023: Critics' Picks Competition, PÖFF 27, PÖFF 27: Critics' Picks Competition, PÖFF: Critics' Picks Competition, poison, policy, poverty, pre-teenage sons, prosperity, protect, Russian Revolution, Sagizbai Karabalin, Salikh Beisenbai, small children, social collapse, Soviet, spaghetti Western, starvation, Steppes, survival, Tallinn, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2023, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2023: Critics' Picks Competition, Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival: Critics' Picks Competition, village, well, wolves, Zhanar Shokpanova

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Name Me Lawand

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date July 3 2023
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Language for the deaf Name Me LawandDirected by Edward LovelaceCertificate PG, 91 minutesReleased 7 July Lawand, a young Iraqi boy, has been written off. He is different, he apparently doesn’t want to communicate with others. No one in his home country can help him. And that’s that. Except, his parents don’t believe it. They are […]

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Name Me Lawand

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Post date June 18 2023
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Director – Edward Lovelace – 2022 – UK – Cert. PG – 91m **** 1/2 A family leave Iraq for the UK where their deaf son can receive education appropriate to his needs, only to find themselves falling foul of the UK’s anti-immigration policies – out in UK and Irish cinemas on Friday, July 7th, […]

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After Yang

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Post date September 22 2022
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Director – Kogonada – 2022 – US – Cert. PG – 96m ****1/2 In the distant future, a couple must come to terms with the loss of the eldest child, actually an A.I. purchased as an ethnically programmed companion for their adopted South East Asian daughter – SF mystery drama is on Sky Cinema from […]

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Hostile

Director – Sonita Gale – 2021 – UK – Cert. 12a – 98m **1/2 A documentary about the UK’s anti-immigrant Hostile Environment policy includes a brief history plus stories of both those it affected and a charity set up to help them – out in cinemas on Friday, January 21st, local screening details constantly being […]

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