The Human Rights Watch Film Festival is on in New York and the Voice's Alan Scherstuhl recommends Joey Boink's Burden of Peace, Andreas Dalsgaard's Life Is Sacred, Hajooj Kuka's Beats of the Antonov, François Verster's The Dream of Shahrazad, Ayat Najafi's No Land's Song, Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe's (T)Error and Laurent Bécue-Renard's Of Men and War. Also: Joe Dante in Los Angeles, New Filipino Cinema in San Francisco, the Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival, Masters of Iranian Cinema in Bristol, John Huston's The Misfits in London and Saskia Boddeke and Peter Greenaway in Berlin. » - David Hudson...
- 6/12/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
The Human Rights Watch Film Festival is on in New York and the Voice's Alan Scherstuhl recommends Joey Boink's Burden of Peace, Andreas Dalsgaard's Life Is Sacred, Hajooj Kuka's Beats of the Antonov, François Verster's The Dream of Shahrazad, Ayat Najafi's No Land's Song, Lyric R. Cabral and David Felix Sutcliffe's (T)Error and Laurent Bécue-Renard's Of Men and War. Also: Joe Dante in Los Angeles, New Filipino Cinema in San Francisco, the Chicago African Diaspora Film Festival, Masters of Iranian Cinema in Bristol, John Huston's The Misfits in London and Saskia Boddeke and Peter Greenaway in Berlin. » - David Hudson...
- 6/12/2015
- Keyframe
When she decided to start an all-girls school in a remote village in Afghanistan, a few elders came to Razia Jan asking her to start a boys school instead. "Don't you know that boys are the backbone of Afghanistan?" they asked her. "Well, girls are the eyes of this country, and till they are educated you will all be blind," she retorted. Beth Murphy's What Tomorrow Brings is not just about Razia, the courageous woman who stood up against the men in her village to ensure that every girl gets an education. It is about the young women of Afghanistan, who seek refuge from the imprisonment of their own religion and the highly patriarchal society. After the Taliban's ban on girls education, the village wakes up to heart-wrenching radio bulletins about grenade and poison attacks at other schools in and around Afghanistan. Here, going to school is in itself a huge risk.
- 6/11/2015
- by Monty Majeed
- MUBI
★★★★★ Ayat Najafi's enthralling doc No Land's Song (2014) is about his sister Sara's attempts to stage a concert in Tehran featuring female soloists. Following the Islamic revolution of 1979 female singers were banned from performing solo in public, unless to an exclusively female audience. Iran has a history of iconic female singers, such as Qamar al- Molouk Vaziri, Delkash and Googoosh. Now their recordings are only available on the black market. Sara - a composer - and her friends feel keenly the loss of the female voice in Iran. Sara decide to plan a public concert of Persian music with singers Parvin Namazi and Sayeh Sodeyfi.
- 3/25/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
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