Director: Mahmoud Ghaffari Watch Hair on FilmDoo From its silent opening scene of a young woman weeping as she fiercely combs out her long dark hair (an intensely watchable Shabnam Akhlaghi, her performance both febrile and contained), Mahmoud Ghaffari’s […]
Director: Juan Gautier Watch Tanger Gool on FilmDoo A blend of documentary and scripted drama, Spanish production Tanger Gool is a concerted effort to present a feel-good film about the concerns of Arab youth in the poor Bir […]
Crash Test Aglaé – Director: Eric Gravel The Summer Movie – Director: Emmanuel Marre MyFrenchFilmFestival review Watch Crash Test Aglaé and The Summer Movie on FilmDoo Among the wealth of offerings from MyFrenchFilmFestival are two very different road movies – feature […]
Director: Olivier Babinet MyFrenchFilmFestival review Watch Swagger on FilmDoo Extraordinary French documentary Swagger introduces eleven high school students from Claude Debussy college in Aulnay-sous-Bois, an underprivileged urban suburb of Paris. The school’s population is mostly of black and […]
Directors: Lise Akoka and Romane Guéret MyFrenchFilmFestival review Watch Chasse Royale on FilmDoo Tough-as-nails Angélique explodes onto the screen, hurling insults at someone off camera and storming away, minus her shoes which she kicks off in a […]
Director: Manu Riche A former bank – featureless and barren in the middle of a featureless, desolate Brussels – has become a temporary home for a group of asylum-seeking migrants trying to find a way […]
