just beautiful. 2025 it's only up for somalis on screen (and behind the screen)!! i love my people💌
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Gaza Mon Amour 2020
my heart feels so warm!! love under occupation is such a powerful form of resistance. If you want to indulge in a film that isn't too heavy AND has a love story but still captures the reality of living in an apartheid state, please watch this!! It's witty, charming, melancholic, and tender, with a score and cinematography so beautiful you too fall in love with Gaza, Nasser and Siham (we have the same name ofc i HAVE to mention that).…
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Fish Tank 2009
1. the dancing scene with mia's mum, and mia joining in with her sister is so heartbreakingly beautiful, a poetic send-off of sorts
2. everytime connor came on the screen i felt a stomach-churning sense of dread. poor mia was failed by every single adult in her life, and so she slowly lowers her guard-emotionally and later physically-to the only 'decent' father figure she has. He recognises her vulnerability and exploits it, slipping through her defences with rare moments of…
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An Urban Allegory 2024
i love how it was the kid, not an adult, who exposed the facade and essentially helped everyone else 'break free' from their chains. It's powerful in showing a purity of perspective—one that is unclouded by societal norms and learned expectations, and one that sees life through a different lens, like the child's kaleidoscope. short but soo thought-provoking. also, I recognised the mother from the Algerian film Papicha—which i def recommend!!
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