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Cairo Film Festival

CAIRO FILM FESTIVAL 2016: POLAR BOY BY ANUN AUN

By Tara Judah

Using disappointingly one-dimensional stereotypes to tell a male coming-of-age story is Anu Aun’s Estonian entry into the Official Competition at the 38th Cairo International Film Festival, Polaarpoiss (Polar Boy).

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Críticas

PANORAMA: THE CHALLENGE DE YURI ANCARANI

Por Aldo Padilla

En The Challenge, el director italiano Yuri Ancarani documenta distintas aficiones de la alta sociedad catarí, capturada en medio del consumismo más salvaje, pero que se contrapone a las fuertes tradiciones que prevalecen, desde las más antiguas como la cacería con halcones hasta nuevas costumbres árabes, como la conducción en dunas.

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Críticas

PANORAMA: THREE DE JOHNNIE TO

Por Mónica Delgado

Luego de la rareza de ver a Johnnie To dirigiendo un musical en 3D tan virtuoso como Office, en Three el cineasta hongkonés vuelve a su entorno natural, el de las formas del thriller de acción, y esta vez teniendo como único gran escenario las zonas, techos, pasadizos y salas de emergencia de un hospital.

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Cine latinoamericano

PANORAMA: CUMP4RSIT4 DE RAÚL PERRONE

Por Mónica Delgado

Perrone persiste con un estilo que mantuvo desde P3nd3j05 (odas modernas al cine silente) y que aquí dilata en explícito homenaje al montaje de los maestros soviéticos, para hablar de los liderazgos de pantomima que aún siguen haciendo retroceder el deseo de los pueblos.

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Cairo Film Festival

CAIRO FILM FESTIVAL 2016: AFTER THE STORM BY HIROKASU KORE-EDA

By Tara Judah

After the Storm is a beautiful film that has brought tearstains from my soul to the surface. And, as the fictional typhoon moved on, and the credits rolled, I smiled. After the film, I know my tears will dry, outside the auditorium, in the cool breeze of the very real world.

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Cairo Film Festival

CAIRO FILM FESTIVAL 2016: ANNA’S LIFE BY NINO BASILIA

By Tara Judah

It costs too much, everything. Anna answers her apartment door to a man, his hand trembling, as he clutches a cup and a religious image. He asks for money; his child is sick and needs medicine. Anna is on the phone; she is agitated, distracted and, after rummaging in the fridge, brings him meat and fresh bread. The man is disappointed, “I’d prefer money,” he tells her. “I’d also prefer money, but I don’t have it,” she spits back, and closes the door.

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Cairo Film Festival

CAIRO FILM FESTIVAL 2016: TJUVHEDER BY PETER GRÖNLUND

By Tara Judah

It may be a stretch to call them ‘popular’, but Sans toit ni loi (Vagabond, Agnès Varda, 1985), Wendy and Lucy (Kelly Reichardt, 2008) and Cathy Come Home (Ken Loach, 1964) are engaging and well revered films about homeless women. Tjuvheder (Drifters), which has screened in Sweden and Norway and at a handful of international film festivals, is a Swedish film about two homeless women who are stuck in a cycle of poverty and substance abuse.

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