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Still from the documentary Seven Years in May by Affonso Uchoa

by :Ela Bittencourt
11-13-2019
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Written on the Body: New Documentaries from Feras Fayyad and Affonso Uchoa

Two recent films explore the presence of the body in the documentary form. When the Syrian director Feras Fayyad decided to film Amani Ballor, the young manager of a hospital in Ghouta, not far from Damascus, he asked his cinematographers, Mohammad...

Still from LINA FROM LIMA, a film by the Chilean director María Paz González, one of the women and Global South director at TIFF

by :Ela Bittencourt
09-1-2019
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Women and Global South Directors at Toronto International Film Festival TIFF

Women and Global South directors who are bringing their films to this year's Toronto Film Festival (TIFF) include Barbara Kopple (the acclaimed American documentary director of Harlan County, who returns with a new documentary film, Desert One, "the true story behind...

Film Still from Double Blind by Sophie Calle

by :Ela Bittencourt
08-12-2019
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Did Sophie Calle Always Rock?

I have a thing for Sophie Calle. So does my husband. Since we've known her photographs we have been fascinated by her lurking, stalking style and secretive subject matter. Calle is a voyeur, but the thing is -- her photographs...

Parasite by Global South filmmaker - Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho

by :Ela Bittencourt
05-27-2019
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Best Global South Films in Cannes

It was a great moment for films from Latin America and the Global South in Cannes. Among our favorites--and the nearly unanimous critical favorite--is PARASITE, by the South Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho. PARASITE is one of those hugely popular films...

by :Ela Bittencourt
04-22-2019
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Film Noir Deadly Women

Film noir can be an unforgiving genre, populated with female characters who are either one-dimensional femme fatales or mere appendices in the cat-and-mouse private-detective chases. But then there's another breed of film noir women: Beautiful and brainy, challenging, outspoken and...

Still from Bring Me The Head of Carmen M.

by :Ela Bittencourt
01-23-2019
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Future Bodies and the Tired Ghost of Carmen Miranda: Brazilian Cinema at Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes

My stay in Tiradentes, Minas, where the 22nd edition of Mostra de Cinema de Tiradentes, is still taking place, was brief. And yet, it was enough to sense the intensity, both of the films and the debates, which I associate...

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