“Oasis”, a short documentary film, by 24-year-old Justine Martin is now shortlisted for the upcoming Academy Awards in the Best Documentary Short Film Category. Shot in the Quebec Laurentians the 14-minute short documentary film tells the story of two twins at the dawn of their teenage years. Raphäel is suffering from a developmental handicap. RémiContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Oasis”: Quebec Filmmaker Justine Martin’s Film Shortlisted at Upcoming OSCARS”
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RKS 2024 Film: “Fallen Leaves”: Awkwardness, Alienation and Depression Perfected
Ansa (Alma Pöysti) and Holappa (Jussi Vatanen) are two lonely souls portrayed in a gloomy, stark and industrialized Helsinki. Ansa meets Holappa at a karaoke bar full of strange “out of the ordinary” people. In fact the film is full of distracted out of place people in equally stark and bizarre settings. The music throughoutContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Fallen Leaves”: Awkwardness, Alienation and Depression Perfected”
RKS 2024 Film: “Fireworks”: Hunting Rabbits and Homosexuals
“Fireworks” is set in a small Sicilian town in 1982. The film has a rabbit hunting scene at its beginning and near its end and at its end the last hunt is left to your imagination. Teenager Gianni (Samuele Segreto) is a shy fellow working as a mechanic for his stepfather. Gianni has had someContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Fireworks”: Hunting Rabbits and Homosexuals”
RKS 2024 Documentary Film: Palestinian Voices: “From Under the Rubble” (2017)
The Gaza Strip is 28 miles long, and 3-7 miles wide with a population of 1.7 million. In January 2009 Israel’s army and air force invaded Gaza in an incursion called “Operation Cast Lead” which is also known as “The Gaza Massacre” where three weeks of shelling and experiments with flesh melting white phosphorus resultedContinue reading “RKS 2024 Documentary Film: Palestinian Voices: “From Under the Rubble” (2017)”
RKS 2024 Film: Palestinian Voices: Larissa Sansour’s Sci-Fi Trilogy
The anger and hate in the War on Palestine is noisy and grating. Whomever can shoot and kill becomes the winner. Of course, cultural eradication is the biggest victory and one senses in Sansour’s Sci-Fi Trilogy (of shorts) Palestinian culture survives and quietly and effectively makes its point without resorting to RPGs. Can you imagineContinue reading “RKS 2024 Film: Palestinian Voices: Larissa Sansour’s Sci-Fi Trilogy”
RKS 2024 Film: “Between Two Crossings”: Caught in the Israeli-Egyptian Vice
My late Portuguese friend was a diplomat based in Toronto when I met him. He taught me many things and helped instill my love of Portugal. I last enjoyed his company in Estoril a decade ago and he had retired and we enjoyed a wonderful lunch on the boardwalk. He loved to say, “It’s complicated”Continue reading “RKS 2024 Film: “Between Two Crossings”: Caught in the Israeli-Egyptian Vice”
RKS 2023 Film: Best Documentaries of 2023
Seven Winters in Tehran (Germany and France) 95 Haulout (Great Britain) 94 Before the Sun (Canada) 94 Theatre of Violence (Germany and Denmark) 93 The Eternal Memory (Chile) 93 Pay or Die (USA) 93 Food and Country (USA) 92 Who’s Afraid of Nathan Law (USA) 92
RKS 2023 Film: Best Feature Films in 2023
Metronom (Romania) 96 Holy Emy (Greece) 96 Woman Meets Girl (Canada/Short) 96 Subtraction (Iran) 96 Scarpedicemente (Canada) 96 The Marines That Never Returned (Korea 1963) 96 Rose (Denmark) 96 Godland (Denmark) 95 Bloom (Canada/short) 95 Iman (Cyprus) 95 Sisu (Finland) 94 Eight Mountains (Italy) 93 Jules (USA) 93 Blackstone (Greece) 93 The Beasts (France) 93Continue reading “RKS 2023 Film: Best Feature Films in 2023”
RKS 2023 Film: “ROJEK”: Behind the ISIS Killing Machine
“ROJEK” is Canada’s official selection for Best International Feature Film and Best Documentary Feature Film at the upcoming 96th Academy Awards. “ROJEK” is available on all major VOD platforms in North America and will be launched on CRAVE on 8December2023, Canada’s prestige entertainment streaming platform. “ROJEX” was directed by Canadian director Zaynê Akyol who wasContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “ROJEK”: Behind the ISIS Killing Machine”
RKS 2023 Film : “Hong Kong Mixtape”: PRC’s Iron Fist Suffocates Hong Kong
On 1July1997 British rule ended in Hong Kong and its fate was handed over to the People’s Republic of China which promised democracy would live on but who believed that? And authoritarian rule gradually seeped into Hong Kong. Youth led protests to the anti-democratic manoeuvres by PRC to eliminate democracy really crystallized with promulgation ofContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film : “Hong Kong Mixtape”: PRC’s Iron Fist Suffocates Hong Kong”
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