Heading out onto the train wearing a mask, a young woman becomes the focal point due to the large smiling image she affixed to the front of her medical mask. However, as the survivor of an acid attack, the unnamed girl hides a pain behind the artificial grin that few will ever experience.
“Smile of the Mask” review is part of the Submit Your Film Initiative
“Smile of the Mask” is a simple premise film that is highly effective in confronting the audience with the harsh realities of life after being attacked and permanently scarred. The idea of being able to hide the deformity does not lessen the burden of having to bear that pain, the smile a fleeting reflection of beauty that the woman can only indulge in due to the circumstances around the pandemic. If anything, the short captures a single moment where the desire for normalcy can...
“Smile of the Mask” review is part of the Submit Your Film Initiative
“Smile of the Mask” is a simple premise film that is highly effective in confronting the audience with the harsh realities of life after being attacked and permanently scarred. The idea of being able to hide the deformity does not lessen the burden of having to bear that pain, the smile a fleeting reflection of beauty that the woman can only indulge in due to the circumstances around the pandemic. If anything, the short captures a single moment where the desire for normalcy can...
- 12/7/2021
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
Life After Oil, the International Film Festival in Sardinia (and from this year in Apulia too) that specifically deals with issues relating to the environment and human rights at an international level, is back. Now in its 8th edition, the event conceived and directed by Massimiliano Mazzotta has increasingly become an important opportunity of dialogue for filmmakers, activists, and associations of various nationalities that want to discuss energy issues and the search for a more sustainable lifestyle that is right for everyone.
This year the Festival reiterates its itinerant and ubiquitous character: it takes place for the first time in Villanovaforru (Su) and in Brindisi. Sardinia and Apulia are two different realities but with several common factors. One above all, the beautiful landscape, ravaged by highly polluting industries that have compromised areas of naturalistic and environmental value, and caused irreparable damage to the health of the populations.
Life After Oil...
This year the Festival reiterates its itinerant and ubiquitous character: it takes place for the first time in Villanovaforru (Su) and in Brindisi. Sardinia and Apulia are two different realities but with several common factors. One above all, the beautiful landscape, ravaged by highly polluting industries that have compromised areas of naturalistic and environmental value, and caused irreparable damage to the health of the populations.
Life After Oil...
- 9/9/2021
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
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