Review preview for Bobi Wine: The People's President
Though we spend a good part of the film inside offices or private homes, there is also a lot of footage from the streets, where passions run high.
A documentary about how Ugandan opposition leader, activist and musical star Bobi Wine took on the regime led by Yoweri Museveni, the person who led the country for 35 years.
Do you like watching car chases? These men do them for a living.
Filmed over eight years, this documentary follows drivers who smuggle Palestinian workers in and out of Israel risking jail in the process.
(Country: France, Germany, Lebanon, Palestinian Territories, Qatar, Israel; Year: 2021; Director: Daniel Carsenty, Mohammed Abugeth; Writer: Mohammed Abugeth, Daniel Carsenty)
Leonie is a rising teen influencer living on the outskirts of Berlin. As her fame grows, her parents see the economic opportunity of social media and become her managers. The pressure blurs the line of their relationship.
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2022; Director: Susanne Regina Meures)
A Golden Life
(Or De Vie)
The story of 16-year-old Rasmané, who barely seems like a teenager any more. In Burkina Faso, young men look under the earth for gold - and a better future, follow their journey in a 100-metre abyss of small-scale mining.
This is a place of cleansing, not just of the body but so much more as this non-intrusive but immersive film gradually reveals.
In the darkness of a smoke sauna, women share their innermost secrets and intimate experiences, washing off the shame trapped in their bodies and regaining their strength through a sense of communion.
(Country: Estonia, France, Iceland; Year: 2023; Director: Anna Hints)
