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Wall of Peace (2023)

★ — Wall of Peace (2023)

Wall of Peace is a short film from Liberia, running at just seventeen minutes, and represents the kind of micro-budget, community-produced filmmaking that has been slowly building a foothold in West African cinema outside the better-established industries of Nigeria and Ghana. Director Luther N. Mafalleh works within a tradition of socially conscious short-form storytelling, using the film to address domestic abuse and the cultural pressures around divorce that remain deeply embedded in Liberian society. The country's film industry is still in early development, shaped in part by decades of civil conflict (Liberia endured two civil wars between 1989 and 2003) that disrupted most cultural infrastructure, making productions like this, however modest, a meaningful part of rebuilding a local screen culture.

A-Z World Movie Tour Liberia FIRST LETTERBOXD REVIEW I really don't want to be harsh here but this was awful. The subject matter is domestic violence basically. The acting is absolutely terrible. The daughter acts like she's delirious in every scene (despite that not being the role) and the Mum's eating is like something out of a George Romero movie It's just bad on practically every single level. Even the microphones getting bashed from time to time is left in. An all round terrible short

Rating: ★ | Year: 2023 | Watched: 2025-06-29

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