Overview of articles
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Women Without Men
Visually impressive feature debut by the Iranian visual artist Shirin Neshat. She filmed the novel by Shahrnush Parsipur, which is banned in Iran, aboPublished on: -
Hadewijch
A young novice is thrown out of the nunnery and leaves with an Arab for the Middle East in order to sacrifice herself for her…Published on: -
Fair Trade
Cool animation with great soundtrack about a young woman who tries to shake off her past.Published on: -
Resisim
A man walks amongst an inferno of flames, shell-shocked. When he’s back home, he starts group therapy in a military rehab centre, meeting all kinds…Published on: -
La mujer sin piano
Rebollo was inspired by the sight of a respectable lady sitting at night by a closed bus station. What was she doing there? The film…Published on: -
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Via Okinawa
During the Vietnam War era, the influx of American soldiers to Okinawa boosted the local economy and introduced many bars and nightclubs. With exhaustPublished on: -
The Border
Penetrating documentary about the absurdity of the situation in the village of Slemence, which one day in 1946 suddenly found itself divided between tPublished on: -
Doing Time
With a restrained, Ozu-like flavour, Sai adapted Hanawa Kazuichi’s autobiographical manga about three years imprisonment after collecting replica gunsPublished on: -
The Women in the Mirror
Yoshida’s return to form after a fifteen-year interval takes on the important theme of the atomic bomb. Three generations of women question their idenPublished on:
