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Search Results for: boys state

Standing Tall

Alex Heeney / March 27, 2016

Standing Tall is a gritty coming-of-ager told through rose-coloured glasses

…she can barely take care of herself. He’s rebelling against the lack of authority in his home life, and the state is forced to pick up the slack. Over the…

Woman at War, Benedikt Erlingsson

Elena Lazic / September 1, 2018

‘We are at war with ourselves’: Benedikt Erlingsson discusses Woman at War

…to address the fact that environmentalists and activists who are fighting to preserve the environment easily become enemies of the state. We see this all around. We see environmentalists like…

A still from Charlatan, in which a man holds up a small glass of urine to the light and stares at it, while another main watches him from behind. The text on the image says: Review.

Alex Heeney / December 10, 2020

Charlatan draws parallels between a faith healer and communism

…though the papers, and eventually the state, dismiss Jan as a charlatan, Holland isn’t quite so quick to do so. For her, part of our trust in healers is about…

Alex Heeney / May 12, 2021

Visions du Réel Review: Captains of Za’atari

…Hoops Dream-esque premise of Captains of Za’atari proves a bit of a MacGuffin, as El-Arabi is more interested in the friendship between the boys and their hope for the future…

An image of Kris Rey superimposed over a still from her film, I Used to Go Here, featuring Gillian Jacobs. The image has the text, Interview, over it.

Alex Heeney / August 8, 2020

Kris Rey on her comedy of mid-30s malaise, I Used to Go Here

…with creative writing majors. She finds herself wandering over there out of nostalgia, and unexpectedly befriending the three boys who now live there: Animal (Forrest Goodluck), Hugo (Josh Wiggins), and…

Seventh Row Editors / March 1, 2023

Ep. 133. Berlinale 2023: Here, The Teachers’ Lounge, Delegation, and more

…Boys (Belgium/France, dir. Zeno Gratan) 37:20 Wrap up First, Alex discusses the best film of the festival she saw, Here (dir. Bas Devos), which screened in the Encounters section where…

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