By Anne Brodie Sometimes a movie will knock you flat out. The King Tide is such a film. It's set on a wild, windy isolated island off Newfoundland and Labrador, where its population origins are cloaked in mystery. It’s a closed society, “mainlanders” are to be shunned and discouraged from showing …
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By Anne Brodie - Léa Seydoux and George MacKay star in The Beast, from Bertrand Bonello, as lovers who meet over a century of time space, and emotion but never quite gel. Both suffer from anxiety, and panic as catastrophes happen, again and again, 1910, 1990s, 2044, wherever their narrative lands …
The Fact-Based Irena’s Vow Shines a Light on a Polish Nurse’ Extraordinary Heroism in WWII Nazi-Occupied Warsaw. Sophie Nélisse is Irene Gut Opdyke, Who Singlehandedly Saved Dozens of Jewish Lives.
The incredible story of nineteen-year-old Irena Gut only recently came to light, decades after the events of WWII. Gut was taken prisoner by the Nazis and assigned to be housekeeper and cook to an SS Commander. That’s when she decided to take a dozen Jewish prisoners, who would have been caught up …
First-Time Time Filmmaker Zarrar Kahn Tackles Serious Women’s Issues In Traditionally Patriarchal Pakistan
Canadian Pakistani filmmaker Zarrar Kahn shows great understanding and mastery in blending film genres in his stunning debut feature In Flames, and great respect for women’s rights. Set in Karachi, Pakistan, it follows a mother and daughter played by Ramesha Nawal and Bakhtawar Mazhar, at a critical …
First-Time Pakistani Actor Ramesha Nawal and Veteran Bakhtawar Mazhar’s Powerful Perfs Astound in In Flames.
Ramesha Nawal is Mariam a young woman in Karachi in a psychologically vulnerable state following the death of her father and the betrayal of a male relative who seeks to steal the apartment she shares with her mother Fariha, played by Bakhtawar Mazhar. They're stunned by the possibility of …