Autisto ★
“It’s taken from facts which are close to me; (…) inspired by my own experience,” says Jérôme Cohen-Olivar about hisContinue Reading
Tag: 2025 Marrakech International Film Festival
Life After Siham (documentary) ★★½
He would want for life to be a movie, says Namir Abdel Masseeh in one heartbreaking scene of his intimateContinue Reading
Five Eyes (documentary) ★★
For more than half of his long life, writer and composer Paul Bowles lived in Morocco. His five decades inContinue Reading
I Want Her Dead (documentary) ★½
Two archenemies, a longstanding family feud, the scenic stage of a remote Calabrian village where the ruins of an antiqueContinue Reading
Those Who Watch Over (documentary) ★★½
Do the living watch over the dead in Karima Saïdi‘s observational obituary? Or is it in fact the dead whoContinue Reading
Porte Bagage ★★½
The titular baggage of Abdelkarim El-Fassi‘s first feature film, debuting in the Moroccan Panorama section of the Marrakech International FilmContinue Reading
Amoeba ★★★
The amorphous body of the titular organism becomes a microscopic metaphor for the undefined shape of adolescence trapped within rigidContinue Reading
Memory ★★½
From its opening frames, Vladlena Sandu‘s essayist drama announces itself as an intimate reckoning with a childhood disrupted by violence,Continue Reading
Homebound ★★½
A decade after his last cinematic effort, Neeraj Ghaywan returns with a prestige project, shepherded by executive producer Martin Scorsese,Continue Reading
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