‘Hotel Mokum’, released in October 2023, is a 30-minute Dutch documentary short film directed by Yannesh Meijman and narrated by Maxime Garcia Diaz. The film…
Hanna NiedlSeptember 25, 2024
Breathtaking. Literally and figuratively, that is how – ironically – The Deepest Breath can be best described. Following the free divers Alessia Zecchini and Steven…
Christine LastovkaNovember 15, 2023
‘There is a word in Korean. In-Yun. It means “Providence”, or “fate”. But it’s specifically about relationships between people It’s “In-Yun” if two strangers even…
Evita EgertNovember 8, 2023
“One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic.” This infamous statement by Stalin summarizes why we need to watch movies like The…
Avanti VijayApril 28, 2023
Sometimes we look back on our experiences with those near and dear to us, and ask ourselves how we could have possibly missed the signs.…
Evita EgertMarch 24, 2023
© FX Network Choices. We all have them, but are they always correct? As a therapist you choose the course of treatment for a patient, but…
Maria MiklińskaFebruary 22, 2023
Reflecting on the theme of pride for this issue, I was reminded of my own explorations of the term as a teenager learning about the…
Isabelle Nic CraithJanuary 18, 2023
If we find ourselves together after a long day, and you ask me for a movie to decompress, there is no doubt, my first and…
Zhen CongNovember 23, 2022
‘Do you ever look at someone and wonder what is going on inside their head?’ Pixar’s Inside Out follows the life of Riley, an 11-year-old…
Evita EgertNovember 1, 2022
Movies from the perspective of a woman are rare enough. But movies made by women about porn, especially fiction, that’s about as rare as it…
Anne Sophie GiacobelloSeptember 12, 2022
Turning Red is the newest animation released by Pixar. It features the story of Mei Lee, a Chinese-Canadian teenager who enters puberty and struggles to…
Magda MatetoviciJune 1, 2022
Although it is the world’s largest uninterrupted intertidal sea area and extends along the coasts of Germany, the Netherlands (the two countries I know best)…
Anne Sophie GiacobelloApril 11, 2022
Don’t Look Up is a Netflix movie by Adam McKay, featuring quite popular actors like Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence. The release date was during…
Esna Mualla GunayMarch 8, 2022
Photo by Film Affinity The best way to summarize the underlying message of the 2018 film Instant Family is with this quote: ‘It is not…
Avanti VijayNovember 22, 2021
When watching the trailer of the movie Druk (English title: Another Round) from Thomas Vinterberg you might at first get the feeling that the movie is somehow a…
Anne Sophie GiacobelloNovember 4, 2021
The Seaspiracy documentary presents a nuanced and interesting take on the fishing industry and its associated environmental and structural problems. It highlights the (potential) largest…
Lydia TianSeptember 10, 2021
Orange dots are floating around the screen. ‘Our lives are filled with distraction, filled with stimulation’, you hear the Headspace co-founder Andy Puddicombe saying. ‘Imagine…
Anne Sophie GiacobelloMay 19, 2021
‘Nostalgia sells better and better now.’, chimes in a chap at the beginning of La Belle Époque. Indeed, the lure of nostalgia is certainly something…
Nitya ShahApril 8, 2021
‘I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve been in a public space, particularly early in my transition in New York City, when I…
Avanti VijayFebruary 22, 2021
Abducted in Plain Sight, a true-crime documentary from 2017 that recently debuted on Netflix tells the shocking story of the kind-hearted and friendly neighbour of…
Elise van GravenJanuary 4, 2021
Are you curious about how a human being develops starting from birth? The time you studied the world most intensively, was when you were a…
Bianca Moraru and Magda MatetoviciNovember 9, 2020
The two-time award-winning documentary The Social Dilemma investigates the dangerous impact of social networks – such as Twitter, Youtube or Facebook – on society, civilization…
Elise van GravenSeptember 28, 2020
If you enjoy the subject of time travel, chances are you have had some long, confusing thoughts about how traveling back in time would affect…
Julius DullaertSeptember 14, 2020
Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak, is a Netflix docuseries composed of six episodes under an hour-long, released on January 22nd 2020. Somewhat coincidentally, its…
Elizabeth Helen RouhaJune 1, 2020