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Europa (2021)

★ — Europa (2021)

Europa arrived on the festival circuit in 2021 as the debut feature from Iraqi-Italian director Haider Rashid, a filmmaker who had previously worked in short form and documentary before making the jump to a co-production backed by an unusual combination of the Iraqi Ministry of Culture, Kuwait's Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), and the small British outfit Radical Plans Ltd. Shot almost entirely on location in the forests along the Bulgarian-Turkish border, the film draws directly from documented real-world accounts of the so-called "pushback" operations carried out against migrants attempting to enter the European Union on foot, a practice that attracted significant human rights scrutiny in the years running up to production. At just 72 minutes, it is a lean, physically punishing work, with Adam Ali carrying virtually every frame.

A-z World Movie Tour Jordan This movie was effectively 72 minutes of heavy breathing and grunting in forests. It was a noble idea but the execution was very poor. Picture quality was great but honestly after 10 minutes nothing changes in the movie at all. It's just rinse and repeat. Heavy breathing, grunting. The ending sequence was 10 minutes of the main guy lying in a boat heavy breathing. One continuous shot. Yeah, pretty much very little to like about this

Rating: ★ | Year: 2021 | Watched: 2025-07-03

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