Actress and Global Goodwill Ambassador Sara Alavi addresses the general public’s top-rated most controversial misconceptions around global forced migrants and refugees in What Do We Know About Refugees?
[Read more…]Witness: A Documentary (2022) film review
An Albany, NY Imam, and a pizza shop owner become the focus of an FBI sting. A convicted felon is sent to entrap the Imam by tricking him into serving as a witness to a money laundering scheme that they connect to a fake terror plot in Masood Haque’s Witness: A Documentary.
[Read more…]Shirin Ebadi: Until We Are Free (2022) film review
Telling the story of a heroic human rights lawyer who defends women and children against the brutalities of the Iranian regime, this is Dawn Gifford Engle’s documentary, Shirin Ebadi: Until We Are Free.
[Read more…]It’s Okay To Be Different (2022) film review
Focusing on the young people and families of an award-winning UK theatre group for people with additional needs called Drama Express, as they create a performance to premiere at Cornwall’s iconic Minack Theatre. This is Robin Toyne’s documentary It’s Okay To Be Different.
[Read more…]Luiz’s Crackland (2022) short film review
A short observational documentary about a theatre company in Brazil that tells a universal story of the people struggling and those thriving in a difficult and poverty-stricken environment. This is Aliki Tsakoumi’s documentary Luiz’s Crackland.
[Read more…]I’m Not Here (2022) film review
Filmed on the Hawthorn Ward of St James’ Psychiatric Hospital, filmmaker and schizophrenic Juno Jakob explores his devastating diagnosis and what it means to be truly ‘mad’ in the documentary I’m Not Here.
[Read more…]Beyond (2022) film review
Tamara Mark was a rising Broadway/Hollywood star who put her career on hold to become a full-time single mother of two non-verbal autistic children in Thiago Dadalt’s documentary Beyond.
[Read more…]Torn Cloth (2022) film review
A former soldier and retired Muay Thai fighter takes orphans and abandoned boys under his wing where he provides them with refuge, raises them as his own, and trains them in the art of Muay Thai. This is Tate Zandstra’s documentary Torn Cloth
[Read more…]Un Palco Per La Vita (2022) review
Seid, Miguel, and Ludovico are preparing to perform in a play by William Shakespeare. In the meantime, they have to face the challenges that life puts before them. This is Lorenzo Pomari and Paolo Vandoni’s documentary Un Palco Per La Vita.
[Read more…]Halloween Obsessed: The Misconception of Witches (2022) review
Four modern-day witches unmask the myths of witchery and magic in director Linda Palmer’s documentary Halloween Obsessed: The Misconception of Witches.
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