Favorite films

Recent reviews

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  Diaries from Lebanon 2024

  Watched 18 Jan 2025

  Followed by a conversation with the director, at Il Kino in Berlin

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  Leila and the Wolves 1984

  ★★★★½ Watched 07 Dec 2024

  Bristol Palestine Film Festival 2024 at Watershed 

Popular reviews

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  Dogman 2023

  ½ Watched 31 Aug 2023

  Venice Film Festival 2023, Competition

  Probably the most transphobic, ableist and xenophobic film I’ve ever seen.

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  The Whale 2022

  ★★★ Watched 05 Sep 2022

  Venezia 2022
  It was looking into Brendan Fraser’s eyes from a few metres distance right after the film, accompanied by endless standing ovation, that made me sob about this brilliant and touching performance.😪
  However, the film is exploiting the pain of a severely obese man and is lacking a lot of respect for his suffering.

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