Visions du Réel Review: Tolyatti Adrift
It has been decades since the fall of the Iron Curtain but our general understanding of what is now Russia, or within its orbit, is poor to say the least.…
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Visions du Réel Review: My Paper Life
While the continuing refugee crisis is never too far away from new headlines, the discourse is rarely positive or not toxic. Indeed, many people seem to forget that these are…
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Visions du Réel Review: Daughters
Most people will have known friends, family or even just acquaintances who have committed suicide. Many will have been in a position where they’ve contemplated doing it themselves. Even attempted…
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Visions du Réel Review: Dogwatch
The term ‘pirate’ conjures up a number of images, mostly inspired by Disney and childhood films. Maybe visions of Captain James Hook in Peter Pan or even Johnny Depp hamming…
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Visions du Réel Review: Mutzenbacher
We live in an oddly puritanical age. I don’t think anyone could have envisaged that the widespread availability of pornography via the internet would have such a strange effect. It’s…
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Grimmfest Easter Review: The Family
When Europeans made the long and dangerous journey across the Atlantic Ocean to the new world, they took their religion with them. Indeed, in many cases the more puritanical elements…
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Visions du Réel Review: Silent Love
If you’ve grown up in Western Europe it’s easy to become complacent about all the freedoms we’re afforded. Things we take for granted are very much major issues in countries…
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Grimmfest Easter Review: Post Mortem
The scientific and lay world have been fascinated with near death experiences for hundreds of years. In the same way we humans are overly preoccupied with our own mortality, our…
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Visions du Réel Review: Chaylla
According to the World Health Organisation, one-in-three women have experience physical or sexual violence at some stage in their lives. This frightening statistic hammers home just how endemic the problem…
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Visions du Réel Review: A Holy Family
Families are complicated units. Created through generations of complex and often contradictory interrelationships and experiences. Not all children are the same. Some want to fly the nest at the first…
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