LFF Review: Utøya – July 22
On 22 July 2011, Norway experienced the deadliest attacks on its own soil since World War II. In the middle of the afternoon, a car bomb exploded outside the offices…
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LFF Review: Soni
According to a survey carried out by the Thomas Reuters Foundation, India is the most dangerous country in the world for women. It’s in the top 3 for both sexual…
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LFF Review: Evelyn
800,000 people take their own lives every year around the world. In the UK, over 5,000 suicides were registered in 2017. Whilst there have been great steps forward in publicly…
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LFF Review: Young and Alive
It has become de rigueur within the popular media and modern journalism to castigate Millennials as stupid, fickle or vacuous (seemingly intent on ignoring the fact that it’s not the…
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LFF Review: Bisbee ’17
As the saying goes, history is written by the victors. When it comes to remembering the past, some events are more readily forgotten than others. Guilt and embarrassment can lead…
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LFF Review: Cam
The internet has irrevocably changed how we relax, play, consume and work. The adult entertainment/sex industry has probably been transformed the most by new technologies and the myriad of weird…
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LFF Review: Too Late to Die Young
After a US sponsored coup d’état, Augusto Pinochet kept an iron grip on Chile between 1973 and 1990. After seizing power with the backing of the military, the dictator used…
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Festival Preview: Celluloid Screams 2018
Now in its tenth year, Celluloid Screams has become a key part of the UK horror film festival circuit. Guided by loving hands, it has changed and grown into an…
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Venice Review: The Announcement (Anons)
There’s a lot to be said for the maxim that the truth is often stranger than fiction. Given the unbelievable events taking place in American politics at the moment, it’s…
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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Under the Wire
Given the sheer logistics and geography of current ‘war zones’, not to mention the erosions in protections traditionally bestowed on journalists, ‘citizen reporters’ are becoming much more important. However, they…
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