Marie Amachoukeli-Barsacq’s Ama Gloria is a touching, sentimental film about the bond between a young French girl and her nanny from Cape Verde.
Film Festivals
Berlinale Review: Luck Razanajaona’s Disco Afrika
Luck Razanajaona’s transporting and touching feature debut, Disco Afrika, is part coming-of-age story, part political awakening, and a fantastic window into daily life in Madagascar.
Berlinale Review: Dag Johan Haugerud’s Sex
In queer filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud’s film Sex, two nameless middle-aged white men, both straight-married chimney sweeps, grapple with their views on gender roles and sexual identity in contemporary Oslo.
Berlinale Review: Anthony Schatteman’s Young Hearts
Anthony Schatteman’s warm and lovely debut feature film Young Hearts is a rare coming-out and coming-of-age film about characters as young as fourteen. The film Young Hearts screens in the Berlinale’s Generation K+ sidebar.
Berlinale Review: Ray Yeung’s All Shall Be Well
Ray Yeung’s film All Shall Be Well exposes how quickly family bonds can deteriorate and LGBTQ prejudices surface without legal protections.
Cinemania Review: Stéphane Brizé’s Out of Season (Hors-Saison)
Fresh off its Venice premiere, we review Stéphane Brizé’s lovely existential crisis movie with a touch of second chance romance screen, Out of Season (Hors-Saison)