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The Dupes by Tawfiq Saleh: More Tired Than Anyone Should Be
Tewfik Saleh's The Dupes (1972) serves as a reminder of cinema's potential to incite social change and foster cross-cultural empathy. By amplifying Palestinian voices and challenging dominant narratives, it advocates for human rights and justice.
The Deep Darkies of the Soul: M. Night Shyamalan organically swings in The Visit
"You have to laugh to keep the deep darkies in a cave." Shyamalan's most audacious film presents a bizarre mix of knowing irony, youthful naivete, mental illness, comedic horror and tonal shifts, yet everything seamlessly works.
The Holy Ideology and its misogynistic treatise: Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider
Holy Spider portrays threats and terrors rising from 'holy' ideologies with their claims of supremacy. It portrays a narcissistic narrative about a hegemonic ideology that ensures its persistence by masquerading as holy, whereas, in truth, it threatens humankind.
Genuinely socialist: The Midnight Sun Film Festival [2]
Like many of its own films, the Midnight Sun Film Festival remains true to perhaps the greatest cinematic – and human – aspiration of them all: to express an understanding of, and solidarity with, all the others washed up with us here on this strange little planet of ours. [2]