Wow. That was amazing. In a fortnight of watching some really excellent documentaries, this one is something else. I highly recommend you watch it. Kings of Capitol Hill is about the powerful Washington lobbying group AIPAC, which stands for American Israeli Public Affairs Committee. Its job is to ensure the US supports policies that favour…
After the pandemonium of the other Arturo Sotto films shown today, Mantis Nest came as a bit of a surprise. A more or less straightforward murder mystery, with a love triangle and a noirish bent. It’s bloody brilliant too. Really compelling, keeps you gripped. Elena has, since childhood, inspired the love of two men, Tomas…
Loot drop at the Havan Glasgow Film Festival
Breton is a Baby is directed by the same guy who did Vertical Love, and seeing the real Cuba in this documentary explains a lot about why that film is so mad. Cuba is weird. The director, Arturo Sotto, takes us on a tour of Cuba, and seeing it with his eyes, you understand why…
This film is *b*o*n*k*e*r*s*. Do you remember films from the 90s that you loved as a kid, and when you rewatch them as an adult, you’re like, this is problematic as fuck? Of course you did, that describes every movie from the 90s. I’m thinking of something like Overboard, which I laughed my head off…
Really interesting documentary about the Cuban government’s push for tackling climate change. They formed Tarea Vida, or Life Task, as a strategic plan for dealing with climate change in both the short and long term in 2017. Unlike in most places where the populace is desperately crying out for their government to do something, Cuba’s…
Really interesting collection of shorts from Cuba Platform and Claudia Claremi’s The Woodland. The Woodland is this really beautiful short film, showing a grandpa out walking with his young granddaughter in the woods of Cuba. He encourages her curiosity and engagement with the forest, its trees, shrubs and plants. She plays with the ferns that…
Fifth List is a documentary about fishing regulation in Cuba. No, wait, stay! I promise this film about fishing regulations is interesting! Cuba has a pretty unique economic system in the modern world, for obvious historical reasons. Being so different from the one I’ve grown up with in Scotland, it can seem a bit mystifying.…
Cuba: Living Between Hurricanes proves you don’t need a high budget to produce an informative documentary. Just point and shoot and tell your story. The film focuses on Caibarien, a port along the coast of Cuba, telling through this one location, the history of climate change in Cuba. It is a disaster intrinsically linked to…
That’s the in-person screenings for the French Film Festival over, but they will return in a few weeks with an online selection, so keep your eyes peeled!