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Delphine’s Prayers (2021) Open City Documentary Festival Review

Delphine’s Prayers/Les prières de Delphine (2021) Director: Rosine Mbakam The latest feature documentary from Belgium-based Cameroonian filmmaker Rosine Mbakam, a documentarian well regarded for spotlighting the experiences of African migrant women, is an extended interview with Delphine, a 30 year-old fellow Cameroonian immigrant to Belgium with a captivating if harrowing life story to tell. While […]

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Songs for the River (2021) Open City Documentary Festival Review

Songs for the River (2021) Director: Charlotte Ginsborg Like many world-changing disasters, the Coronavirus pandemic has already inspired some great art, from Cold War Steve’s satirical collages on Twitter to Rob Savage’s Zoom horror Host and Kevin Macdonald’s crowd-sourced documentary sequel Life in a Day 2020. Charlotte Ginsborg’s documentary Songs for the River is another important work,

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Juste un mouvement (2021) Open City Documentary Festival Review

Juste un mouvement/Just A Movement (2021) Director: Vincent Meessen “Cinema can serve to explore the creation of forms, their embryology.” Jean-Luc Godard In 1967, French New Wave auteur Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless) released La Chinoise, a film about French university students studying Maoism, filmed in a cinéma vérité style that deliberately blurred the boundaries between film

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