Pedro Pinho’s I Only Rest in the Storm is a hypnotic and textured look at power, identity, and longing, set in a tense West African city. The film follows Sergio, an environmental engineer working on a controversial road between the desert and the forest, as it explores the tangled realities of neo-colonialism, expat privilege, and…
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78th Cannes Film Festival: “Dandelion’s Odyssey” Review
Dandelion’s Odyssey, directed by Momoko Seto, is an imaginative and visually striking film that goes beyond language and species to tell its story. Combining elements of nature documentary, animation, and abstract art, it remains grounded in emotion and wonder. The film follows four dandelion seeds as they travel through strange, hostile yet beautiful landscapes, reflecting…
78th Cannes Film Festival: “Meteors” Review
In Meteors, Hubert Charuel and co-writer Claude Le Pape deliver one of the most emotionally potent and visually singular films to emerge from this year’s Cannes Un Certain Regard. What begins as a gritty portrait of dead-end lives in France’s rural east evolves – unexpectedly, heartbreakingly – into a tender story about male friendship, addiction,…
77th Cannes Film Festival: “When the Light Breaks” Review
Under the moody lilac skies of the Northern hemisphere, comes an 80-minute life sampler of the hopeful and free-spirited youths of Iceland, directed by Rúnar Rúnarsson. There’s only really two plot points of the whole film, which would explain its length; the rest is filled in with the characters’ – particularly Una’s – emotional conflicts…
77th Cannes Film Festival: “Universal Language” Review
The latest absurdist gem sitting behind the oh-so-frightening curtain of non-English cinema is Cannes Directors’ Fortnight: Audience Award winner Universal Language, directed by and starring Matthew Rankin. In Persian and French, the film lands us in the snow-laid streets of Winnipeg, starting off in the French immersion school attended by Nazgol (Saba Vahedyousefi), Negin (Rojina…
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