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Trophy Case   -   Mar 05, 2025 I’m Still Here (TikTok Review)
I’m Still Here (TikTok Review)

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by Umnia El-Neil
Reviews   -   Feb 17, 2025 Universal Language: Time is an Unforgiving but Familiar Winter
Universal Language: Time is an Unforgiving but Familiar Winter

Read more of Michel’s amazing work here. I feel that a lot gets lost when we compare film styles, even when they're applicable, and other ready-at-hand modes of descriptions fail us. It's easy to proclaim the next Vertigo in Decision to Leave, the next socially

by Michel Abdulaziz
Reviews   -   Feb 16, 2025 (🇬🇧🇦🇷🇩🇪) Polvo Serán/They Will Be Dust - ‘You don’t learn life, you live it and that’s it’
(🇬🇧🇦🇷🇩🇪) Polvo Serán/They Will Be Dust - ‘You don’t learn life, you live it and that’s it’

What a brilliant, brilliant, BRILLIANT film. This is one of those films you are EXCITED for other people to discover because it is simply SO DAMN GOOD. Yes, here at OBSCURAE we do not talk down films we don’t like (and we’ll see if my boss and friend

by Celeste Kassautzki Sp.
German   -   Feb 14, 2025 (🇬🇧🇦🇷🇩🇪)‘Village Keeper’ a.k.a ‘The Sunshine Lady’
(🇬🇧🇦🇷🇩🇪)‘Village Keeper’ a.k.a ‘The Sunshine Lady’

‘And just like that I stepped back into my body again. It wasn’t a trickle, it was more like a flood.’ Village Keeper stands out by not following the route of comforting the audience by making the single black mother bring up superhuman strength to fight adversity but instead

by Celeste Kassautzki Sp.
Reviews   -   Feb 11, 2025 🇬🇧🇪🇸Companion: Audience, Wake Up!
🇬🇧🇪🇸Companion: Audience, Wake Up!

ENGLISH VERSION Sitting in the theatre next to my friend after following his suggestion to do zero research on this film before going to watch it, I initially found myself crossing my arms and rolling my eyes in disappointment. How, I wondered, is it possible that they made a film

by Nor García Grau
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