For Cinema Year Zero, I went to Warsaw--

Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
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In CINEMA YEAR ZERO'S 2023 POLL transgression often sits alongside classicism. But does Hollywood's dominance reveal a lack of curiosity or broke bitches who can't afford international festivals? Our film of the year pulls all these concerns together.
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COMING SOON: CYZ #16

Feel lucky to have attended the NCCA conference marking 100 years of Armenian cinema in Yerevan--

Lovely to talk on Vitalina Varela and hear about the past and present of Armenian film

' What can the platitudes in Io Capitano add to the current discourse on migration?'

Liska Brams on Matteo Garrone's 'Io Capitano' in her final review for our YOUNG CRITICS WORKSHOP at Film Fest Gent

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'This is not a film about angry people, but it is an angry film, determined to do justice to the other Tehran that has its own improvised forms of care.'

Sam WM 🇵🇸 on Ali Ahmadzadeh's 'Critical Zone' for our YOUNG CRITICS WORKSHOP 2023 at Film Fest Gent

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'What do you get when you look too close at something? A sense of detail, of intimacy, of deep knowledge.'

José Emilio González on Raven Jackson's 'All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt' for our YOUNG CRITICS WORKSHOP at Film Fest Gent

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'There is something mystical about the warm and steamy smoke, softening the borders between bodies, relaxing them into a state of communion.'

Christy Tan on Anna Hints' 'Smoke Sauna Sisterhood' for our YOUNG CRITICS WORKSHOP at Film Fest Gent

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'And it is here perhaps that the real miracle of the film lies: in construing intimacy as the willingness to listen.'

Vedant Srinivas on Anna Hints' 'Smoke Sauna Sisterhood' as part of our YOUNG CRITICS WORKSHOP at Film Fest Gent

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'Some feelings elude and exceed articulation. 'Here' generously brims with such gestures towards the ineffable.'

Christy Tan on Bas Devos' 'Here' in her second review for our YOUNG CRITICS WORKSHOP 2023 Film Fest Gent

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'Bas Devos has followed the entirely nocturnal Ghost Tropic (2019) with a film that takes shelter in the brindled half-light under canopies of trees in the greenery around Brussels.'

Sam Warren Miell on Bas Devos' 'Here' for our YOUNG CRITICS WORKSHOP.

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'Much of Sweet Dreams unfolds like a bricolage of anti-colonial film templates.'

Vedant Srinivas on Ena Sendijarević's SWEET DREAMS for our YOUNG CRITICS WORKSHOP 2023.

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“We are our own means of production!” When Marx wrote The Communist Manifesto, it is unlikely he was thinking about sex work. But Bella is no ordinary working girl.'

Christy Tan on Yorgos Lanthimos' POOR THINGS for our YOUNG CRITICS WORKSHOP

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👋✍️ Meet the Young Critics ! — yet even more important: make sure to dive into the refreshing essays and reviews by these 5 aspiring film critics about the #FFG2023 selection, ranging from ‘Poor Things’ to ‘La Sirène’!

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'There are indications of a Rivettean mystery afoot, but then again – and this may be one of the supreme achievements – one can never quite be certain about anything.'

Vedant Srinivas on Rodrigo Moreno's 'Los Delincuentos' for our YOUNG CRITICS WORKSHOP

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'The image of a tenderness once felt and perhaps still glimpsed, diffusing through colder, darker waters.'
In his first review for our YOUNG CRITICS WORKSHOP 2023 Sam Warren Miell saw our expectations overturned.

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'Dust is everywhere' in Sepideh Farsi's LA SIRENE dixit José Emilio González in his second review for our YOUNG CRITICS WORKSHOP 2023.

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'Leaving one’s own country for another one, often implies leaving a part of oneself behind.'

In her first review as part of our YOUNG CRITICS WORKSHOP 2023 Liska Brams saw Celine Song's PAST LIVES and wrote about split identities.

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