8 years ago
SFJFF (3 posts found)
From SFJFF: ‘Life According to Sam’ Is a Poignant and Insightful Documentary
Life According to Sam opens with a 13-year-old boy informing us of the way he views his condition. “I didn’t put myself in front of you to have you feel bad for me.” Sam is one of the few unlucky victims of a rare and fatal disease called progeria, a mysteriou...
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From SFJFF: ‘Within the Eye of the Storm’ Is a Well Intended, Severely Slight Documentary
Forgiveness and empathy are the key themes of Shelley Hermon's Within the Eye of the Storm, a classically structured and mostly well-guided documentary about the seemingly endless war between the Israelis and Palestinians. If The Attack told of a very fictiona...
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From SFJFF: ‘The Attack’ Is a Middling and Familiar Depiction of Politics and Love
The titular attack in Lebanese filmmaker Ziad Doueiri's The Attack seeks to expand the scope of moral conscience in modern-day Israel. For all intents and purposes, the calibrated efforts to make this film a provocative and insightful commentary on suicide bom...
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