Tag: Katia Khazak

Interview: Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir – City of Wind

For her debut feature film, Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir delves into her own past experiences, exploring customs and traditions through the eyes of her young protagonist....

The Beast in the Jungle | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review

Waiting for the Stars to Align: Chiha Finds Fruit Rotting on the Vine “Good things come to those who wait” might be a commonly bastardized...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #171. Patric Chiha’s The Beast in the Jungle

La bête dans la jungle Austrian Patric Chiha reunited with Béatrice Dalle and returned to fiction form almost a decade later back in November of...

Mindful Mongolian: Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir Summons “Ze”

If we base ourselves on the course she has charted with his short films, here's a project that has the potential to be showcased...

Dirty Difficult Dangerous | 2022 Venice Film Festival Review

Done Dirt Cheap: Charaf Chafes at Exploited Migrants in Scanty Drama For his sophomore film, Dirty Difficult Dangerous, Lebanese/French director Wissam Charaf presents an indictment...

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La petite dernière (The Little Sister) | Review

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Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.