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Search Results for: boys state

Seventh Row Editors / August 18, 2020

Ep. 53: Boys State and First Stripes

In this episode of the podcast, we compare two political, but not didactic, documentaries, Jesse Moss and Amanda McBaine's new film Boy's State and …

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A young boy helps carry another young boy through the snow in Brother's Keeper. The text on the image reads, 'Review'.

Orla Smith / March 23, 2021

Berlinale Review: Brother’s Keeper undresses a boarding school’s institutional failings

Brother's Keeper, one of the best films of the Berlinale, follows a young boy trying to help his sick friend in a brutal Turkish boarding school. Read the rest …

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Alex Heeney / November 23, 2021

Young Plato Review: great teaching means more than just academics

With Young Plato, Neasa Ní Chianáin continues her cinematic exploration — which began with In Loco Parentis (School Life) — of exceptional Irish teachers and …

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Jessica Forever, Caroline Poggi, Jonathan Vinel, Aomi Muyock

Elena Lazic / September 20, 2018

Jessica Forever interview: ‘In video games, it’s more about what you do in between the shootouts.’

French directors Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel, together with star Aomi Muyock, discuss Jessica Forever, a film as inspired by video games as it is by the …

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Alex Heeney / September 11, 2023

TIFF 23 Film Review: A Happy Day

Hisham Zaman's film A Happy Day follows a group of teenagers in a remote refugee centre on the cusp of adulthood and thus, deportation. Find all of our TIFF …

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Alex Heeney / April 14, 2021

‘It was always about making you feel unsafe’: Oliver Hermanus on Moffie

South African auteur Oliver Hermanus on his 1981-set film, Moffie, about how the army indoctrinated conscripted boys with white supremacy and homophobia. Moffie …

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