Day: October 17, 2023

Set in and around the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar, Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir’s debut feature, City of Wind, is a quintessential tale situating the spiritual conflicts at the juncture between nomadic tradition and global urbanism. At…

Kaouther Ben Hania’s “Four Daughters” is a cinematographic blend of documentary and fiction, an honest exploration of memory, loss, and the complexity of reality and fantasy. The lines between the two are blurred in…

Kaouther Ben Hania's newest experimental docu-drama hybrid, Four Daughters, depicts a world of vicious and merciless creatures, ravenous for prey, a world where Olfa Hamrouni's two eldest daughters are “devoured by the wolf.” In…

A few years back, the news of a single mother, Olfa Hamrouni, losing two of her four daughters, Rahma and Ghofrane, to the influence of ISIS filled the Tunisian national news. In the hybrid…

Co-winner of the Golden Eye for Best Documentary at this year’s Cannes, Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hanja’s docudrama Four Daughters tells the story of Olfa Hamrouni and her four daughters –Ghofrane, Rahma, Eya, and…

Directed by Kaouther Ben Hania, Four Daughters is a Documentary film that tells the stories of a Tunisian family — Olfa and her daughters (Ghofrane, Rahma, Tayssir, and Eya) — while challenging methods of…

By Samantha Cox Kaouther Ben Hania’s Four Daughters retells the story of a mother, Olfa, whose eldest daughters, Ghofrane and Rahma, disappear to join ISIS. It is a documentary that both recreates what happened…

MacKenzie Davis’ WOACA heralds this programme’s veneration for humanity’s unspoken daily traumas. Largely shot using a single camera set-up, a woman stands stoically before her bathroom mirror and performs her ablutions. Staring out from…

Short Cuts 2023 Programme 05 is an interesting medley of stories showcasing people from different backgrounds experiencing loss. The two that specifically stood out to me were WOACA directed by Mackenzie Davis and Sawo…