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A cheerful nostalgia

”How nostalgic!” exclaims a woman over the opening shot of a rising sun and the melancholy sound of an accordion in "Rice Girls". These words sum up her memories of days gone by and describe at the same time the dominant mood of Matteo Bellizzi’s documentary about rice workers in Northern Italy.
Anette Olsen -

Why did Hitler kill himself?

Kevin McMahon is still well-remembered in Canada for his film The Falls (1991), a goofy examination of Niagara Falls that departed from the sometimes overly-earnest conventions of Canadian documentary.
Jerry White -

Journey of peace activism in the face of global militarism

The film covers the Indian and Pakistani nuclear weapons tests in 1998, as well as the nationalist rhetoric that accompanied these tests. It also explores the ill-effects of the Indian test on the surrounding population and the reactions to the test among the government and the public.
Lucinda Broadbent -

Learn to love our bodies through thick and thin

Her body is imperfect. She has feet bumps that need extirpating, a stomach requiring particular expertise to be ‘held in’, teeth that need to be hidden behind carefully controlled smiles.
Adina Bradeanu -

The experience involves unimaginable pain

The circumcision of women may be the ultimate act of subjugation, a brutal operation to control women physically, so they will go directly from obeying their parents to obeying their husband, without being carried away by sexual lust.
Ulla Jacobsen -

Chronicling the Cycle of Abuse

Quite anonymous in itself, the title is well-chosen for this exceptional film. The film is about Stevie and lays his whole life bare for the viewer. It is not an enviable life either: as the film leaves Stevie, he has just started to serve a ten-year sentence for child molesting.
Ulla Jacobsen -

Three women in local coffee shop

Three young Puerto Rican women in their late teens live in the projects around Bushwick Avenue in the heart of Brooklyn which is one of the most deprived areas of New York - all three of them are from lower social class.
Lucinda Broadbent -

Sark is a smallest feudal state

Sark is a community of only 550 people and although formally part of the United Kingdom, it is actually constituted with its own parliament and laws.
Lucinda Broadbent -

How do we learn to live with others and their wishes?

A turtle moves across the floor of the small village school. It takes its time, the rhythm of life is slow and calm. There are no noisy events, nothing special to disturb the turtle as it crosses from a corner to the other end of the classroom that is the daily home of one teacher and a dozen pupils of different ages.
Tue Steen Müller -
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”How nostalgic!” exclaims a woman over the opening shot of a rising sun and the melancholy sound of an accordion in "Rice Girls". These words sum up her memories of days gone by and describe at the same time the dominant mood of Matteo Bellizzi’s documentary about rice workers in Northern Italy.
Rice Girls
Director: Matteo Bellizzi
Producer:
Distributor:
Country: Italy 2002.

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