The ten-years-in-the-making Tezeta is a lively and fascinating portrait of Armenia’s contribution to Ethiopian musical history.
Tezeta Puts a Spotlight on the Little-Known History of Armenians in Ethiopia
Category: Festivals
Reviews and dispatches exploring the best new cinema premiering around the world.
Underseen Festival Favourites 2024
Puncturing through the noise of endless movies playing throughout the world with our selection of underseen 2024 festival favourites worth checking out.
GAIFF Day Four: Redemption Through Art
The splendours of Parajanov, Neapolitan artistry and a variety of Armenian shorts show how art can redeem us and help us process past and present difficulties.
GAIFF Day Three: Rewriting Representation
From refugees writing their own stories to a girl’s search for her mother turned fascinating metafiction, today’s Golden Apricot offerings rewrite the rulebook.
GAIFF Day Two: You Can’t Leave, Stay or Return
Whether you’re in Lithuania, Brazil or Benin, we all have someplace we’d rather be. Live from Golden Apricot International Film Festival.
GAIFF Day One: Ararat to the West, Karabakh to the East
The story of Armenia’s complicated suffering is laid bare in two stylistically opposite yet thematically linked films. From Golden Apricot Film Festival.
Distant Voices, Windless Lives
With a tight 1:1 ratio and an eye for arresting visuals, Windless sure looks great, but its grief-laden tale fails to hit with the viewer emotionally.
No One is Watching in the Panopticon
A study of a young confused man that examines the changing mores of Georgian society, Panopticon fails to stimulate the brain or the heart.
The Fate of Life Under the Grey Sky
With a stripped-back aesthetic, Mara Tamkovich’s debut Under the Grey Sky carefully surveys the cost of practicing independent journalism in modern-day Belarus.
Plastic Guns. A Perfect Shitpost.
Jean-Christophe Meurisse’s Plastic Guns doubles down on the provocations of Bloody Oranges in an off-kilter, hilarious and deeply nasty farce.