Nova Frontier Film Festival Presents THE SQUAT – Immigration Means Survival https://www.picturethispost.com/nova-frontier-film-festival-presents-the-squat-review/ Visit Latin America, the Middle East, and the African Diaspora through Nova Frontier Film Festival Films We first read the words of Warsan Shire on a simple black and white title card –“No one leaves home unless home is a mouth of a shark,” and fear the imagination of 50 rows of razor sharp teeth closing in. Slowly

WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS Film Review — Who Are the Savages https://www.picturethispost.com/waiting-for-the-barbarians-review/ Waiting for the Barbarians opens with arid grasslands encompassed by the snow-tipped mountain ranges of Central Asia. Situated on this infertile land is an adobe settlement. Napping guards, clothed in the tones of their sand-cloaked surroundings, line the battlements of the town’s gate. Inside the adobe buildings, an old man with a gentle countenanc

OVID.tv Presents AFFLUENZA Review — High Consumption Society https://www.picturethispost.com/ovid-tv-presents-affluenza-review/ Before coming to our title screen, filmmaker John de Graaf opens with a scene from a spoof of a once popular soap opera Lives of Our Days. A patient in a surgical gown and comically ornate jewelry begs her doctor for a pill to fix her disaffection. Regretfully, the doctor informs his patient that she is suffering from affluenza; ironically calling it