Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Muna 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 03 Mar 2025

  Somali funeral culture is just so aired omg why are we having a whole cow after someone’s death?

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  Dunia 2005

  ★★★ Watched 01 Mar 2025

  Firstly kinda need Mohamed Mounir down in this king of flipping Nubia but moving on the more pressing matters, my opinion. I actually throughly enjoyed this movie I think it’s so fascinating that Dunia’s empowerment comes from her proximity to dancing and this journey of self discovery comes through that and her erotic poetry thesis and using it to make sense of this body she has only realised she hasn’t fully inhabited. Inch resting my brain is fried I could speak on this topic forever. Some of the poetry was kinda aired though.

Popular reviews

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  To a Land Unknown 2024

  ★★★★½ Watched 12 Feb 2025

  I watched this at the Curzon’s showing with a chance to ask the Mahdi Fleifel some questions which was fun but this was honestly such a realistic, heart-wrenching, grappling take on the ‘exile’ refugee experience. Reda and Chatila are Palestinian cousins who have been displaced to Lebanon to then Athens. You see them go through the hardships of what it is to be exiled more than once and this cruel sense of hope is portrayed so well through survival of…

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  Perfect Days 2023

  ★★★★★ Watched 14 Jan 2025

  This film was so beautiful. There is so much beauty in stillness and the mundanities of life. My favourite scenes were the scenes in the bath house where he would have his bath and it was always followed by a smiley bike ride home. The colours of his room full of plants. The colours of the sky as he drove home after a long day. The big green leaves he sat under every lunch I loved this so much we…

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