By Emilie Van Blarcom Director: Pamela Yates Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2017 Review 500 Years follows the unification of the indigenous and non-indigenous people of Guatemala and their battle to end ongoing government oppression. […]
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By Jack Beresford Director: Nicholas de Pencier Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2017 review Last year, Werner Herzog gained widespread praise for his exploration of the existential impact that the dawn of the internet age […]
By David Pountain Watch Love Letters Are Ridiculous on FilmDoo Alvarina Souza Silva’s Love Letters Are Ridiculous is a mid-20th century period drama that observes traditional values through relatively modern, revisionist eyes. Through its intertwined narratives of […]
By David Pountain Watch Somewhere in the Middle on FilmDoo In Lanre Olabisi’s endearing and perceptive Somewhere in the Middle, every personal experience is a jigsaw piece in a picture that’s bigger than any one person. Through […]
Take Me To The River explores the sensitivity of longstanding family tensions from the perspective of Ryder, a gay Californian teenager that reluctantly goes to visit his mother’s Nebraskan family. After an unexpected crisis occurs, Ryder […]
By Jessica Duncanson Director: Matt Sobel Watch Take Me to the River on FilmDoo The opening of Take Me To The River sets the film up to be a study of homosexuality and urban-rural contrast. Ryder […]