Rating: 3.0★
Few national cinemas have as particular a backstory as Suriname's, and One People sits at the very centre of it. The film arrived in 1976, the year after Suriname formally gained independence from the Netherlands, and that timing is no accident. The country's departure from the
Rating: 2.5★
Post-apocalyptic science fiction has, over the decades, carved out a well-worn groove for itself: crumbling cityscapes, leather-clad survivors, and some vague warning about humanity's hubris. Crumbs (2015), the debut feature from Spanish director Miguel Llansó, takes that familiar premise and drops it, somewhat jarringly, into
Rating: 3.5★
Between 1975 and 1979, the Khmer Rouge under Pol Pot oversaw one of the twentieth century's most catastrophic acts of mass murder, killing somewhere between 1.5 and 2 million Cambodians through execution, forced labour, famine, and disease. What is often less discussed is the regime's
Rating: 2.0★
The legend of La Llorona, the wailing woman who drowned her own children and now wanders waterways weeping for them, is one of the most enduring pieces of folklore across Latin America. Versions of it predate the Spanish conquest, and the figure has since been absorbed into everything from nursery
Rating: 4.0★
Few war films carry the weight of historical testimony quite as heavily as Come and See. Released in 1985 and set during the Nazi occupation of Belarus in 1943, the film is rooted in events that were still raw memory for many Soviet citizens at the time of its production.
Rating: 4.0★
Tourism, as an industry, generates somewhere in the region of ten per cent of global GDP and employs one in ten people on the planet. Those are staggering numbers, and yet the conversation about what mass tourism actually does to the places it touches, the communities it displaces, the ecosystems
Rating: 2.0★
Dominica, the small Eastern Caribbean island not to be confused with the Dominican Republic, sits in a curious position when it comes to cinema. With a population of under 75,000 and no established domestic film industry to speak of, the country's total cinematic output amounts to a
Rating: 3.0★
Trojan Records was never just a record label. Founded in 1968 and named after the Duke Reid sound system truck that had rattled through the streets of Kingston, it became the primary channel through which ska, rocksteady and reggae flowed from Jamaica into the living rooms, youth clubs and dance
Rating: 2.0★
The crack cocaine epidemic that swept through American cities during the 1980s and into the 1990s is one of the most consequential and contested chapters in recent United States history. Its origins, its spread, and the role of various government agencies in either enabling or ignoring it remain subjects of
Rating: 2.0★
West African cinema of the 1970s remains one of the least-documented corners of film history for most European and North American audiences, and Benin in particular barely registers on most people's mental map of global filmmaking. By the early 1970s, the francophone West African film scene was
Rating: 4.0★
There is a particular kind of anticipation that surrounds any new Hayao Miyazaki film, and by 2023 that anticipation had curdled into something closer to disbelief. The director had, after all, announced his retirement in 2013 following the release of The Wind Rises, only to quietly reverse course a few
Rating: 4.0★
Released in 2004, Turtles Can Fly arrived at a moment when the dust from the 2003 invasion of Iraq had barely begun to settle. Shot on location in the Kurdish regions of Iran and Iraq, the film plants itself on the Turkey-Iraq border in the days just before the
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