Social media, tragedy and coming of age in modern-day Egypt
Category Archives: film
Danish film Another Round (Alcootest)
Thomas Vinterberg’s nuanced celebration of alcohol and friendship
Film Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter … and Spring (South Korea)
A beautiful meditation on the seasons of life, set around a floating monastery.
Oscar-nominated Romanian film Collective (Review no 152)
My review of the Oscar-nominated Romanian health-care scandal documentary Collectivee
Die Tomorrow – A Film from Thailand: Review no 149
Mawkish film from Thailand
Review no 144: Supa Modo – a movie from Kenya
Emotionally intense Kenyan “family film”
Review no 142: The Young Offenders (Irish TV comedy series)
Filthy Irish coming-of-age comedy
Review no 139: On a le temps pour nous (Time is on our Side): a documentary film from Burkina Faso
Fascinating documentary following the day to day life of a political revolutionary in the West African state of Burundi
Review no 135: The Wedding Ring (2016) – a movie from Niger
Very enjoyable romantic film from Niger
January 2021 Round-up
A round-up of what I did, read and watched in January 2021
