Home is where the heart is, the place in which we feel the most comfortable and secure, safe from the outside world that tries to invade the sanctuary we have constructed for ourselves, whether literal or metaphorical. This idea serves as the foundation for Costa Brava, Lebanon, the wildly ambitious and deeply meaningful solo directorial…

Coming home can either be a joyful event or a melancholic affair, depending on the circumstances that surround it. The concept of homecoming is a regular theme in films centred around soldiers, whether those that depict them fighting on the battlefields hoping to survive so that they can return home after the war has ended,…

For several decades, the story of June and Jennifer Gibbons has been the subject of a lot of conversation, with their mysterious lives being the source of an enormous amount of analysis as behavioural psychologists, linguists and a range of other investigators tried to determine the root of their condition that caused them to go…

There are few filmmakers who see the world in quite the same way as Xavier Dolan. A young artist who grew up enamoured with the world of cinema that quickly captivated him, it’s easy to see how he was impacted by the presence of certain genres during his formative years. Inspired by the melodramas of…

History was made with the creation of Sambizanga – not only was this one of the pioneering works by a female director working on the African continent, but it was the very first feature film produced by a Lusophone country in Africa, being a shared production between Cape Verde and Angola, the latter being the…

There is something very magical about seeing a work in progress, especially when it is an interpretation of a play by one of the most celebrated writers of any generation. If we’re not able to witness it firsthand, whatever material remains is often good enough in giving us insights into what made this such a…

It is an unimpeachable fact that Marilyn Monroe remains one of the most recognizable, iconic figures of 20th-century culture, a face that has adorned every conceivable kind of media across nearly every country around the world. Yet, did we ever truly know who she was? Her legacy is one that is unfortunately defined by the…

You simply can’t look at the work of Yasujirō Ozu and not discuss the impact of the Second World War on the stories he told. He was a filmmaker that may have rarely addressed the war directly, but rather crafted stories that were situated around the time, focusing on the social and cultural changes brought…

Art has always been interested in examining a few fundamental themes – love, death, family and the meaning of life are essentially the main ideas that have persisted for about as long as art has been produced, regardless of the medium. We can group these themes under the general category of the human condition, which…

How does one begin to describe William Douglas Street Jr. in a way that makes sense? Perhaps the first person we should ask is “The Chameleon” himself – but it’s very likely he’d not be able to answer it either, since his entire life has seemingly been committed to taking on numerous personalities, all of…