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Mangrove (2020)- BFI London Film Festival 2020

Posted by Gui on October 10, 2020

Review 124min Genre:       Drama, Fact-Based Director:     Steve McQueen Cast:         Shaun Parkes, Letitia Wright, Malachi Kirby…and more Writers:     Steve McQueen and Alastair Siddons -Synopsis- Tired of unprovoked police harassment and a legal system which treats them as second class visitors, the West-Indian community in West London clashes with the local cops after unwarranted raids on a […]

Woman at War (2018) (Icelandic Language)- BFI London Film Festival 2018

Posted by Gui on October 21, 2018

Review 101min Genre:     Comedy, Crime, Drama Director:  Benedikt Erlingsson Cast:       Halldóra Geirharðsdóttir, Jóhann Sigurðarson, Juan Camillo… Writers:   Benedikt Erlingsson and Ólafur Egilsson -Synopsis- Middle-aged Icelander ‘Halla’ leads a double life, known to most as an upstanding left-leaning Reykjavik choir director, but moonlighting as a militant environmental activist in rural Iceland, wreaking havoc on the country’s […]

120 BPM (Beats Per Minute) (2017) (French Language)- BFI London Film Festival 2017

Posted by Gui on March 28, 2018

Review 143min Genre:       Drama Director:    Robin Campillo Cast:         Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Arnaud Valois, Adèle Haenel…more Writers:     Robin Campillo and Philippe Mangeot -Synopsis- Frustrated by government inactivity over the spread of HIV in early 1990s France, a group of AIDS activists step-up their efforts and begin taking matters into their own hands, while dealing with shifting […]

He Named Me Malala (2015) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on November 5, 2015

Review 88min USA/UAE Genre:    Documentary, Animation Director: Davis Guggenheim Cast:      Malala Yousafzai, Ziauddin Yousafzai, Toor Pekai Yousafzai… -Synopsis- Director Davis Guggenheim’s chronicle of the life, so far, of Nobel Prize-winning Pakistani teenage activist Malala Yousafzai, from being shot by the Taliban for suggesting girls should be educated to moving to Britain and becoming a global […]