作为中东第一支也是唯一一支女性激流金属(thrash metal)乐队,“塞壬之奴”(Slave to Sirens)正如名字中魅惑的海妖塞壬一样,充满着吸引力。身处政局动荡的贝鲁特,五位乐队成员宛如照亮表达、反抗与独立之路的灯塔。这些女性以优雅的姿态、原始的热情和对艺术惊人的执着,在动荡的环境中走过青春的情感旅程。当她们努力应对着友谊、性向的复杂,面对着周遭的破坏时,她们的勇气也在经受着考验。
Mehran Tamadon explores what it was like being interrogated by the Iranian regime by asking prisoners to reconstruct their experiences.
Alongside his companion film Where God Is Not, My Worst Enemy finds Tamadon shifting focus from the interrogated to the interrogator. The filmmaker sought an individual who had been interrogated by Iranian authorities in order to draw on their experiences to play an interrogator. The role finally fell to the Cannes-winning lead actor of Holy Spider, Zar Amir Ebrahimi. Together in an anonymous room, with Tamadon stripped to his underwear, they reconstruct the interrogation process, which gradually becomes an examination of the nature of power and coercion. The resulting film is intense and, at times, uncomfortable. And as it progresses, My Worst Enemy becomes an exploration of cinema’s relationship with its audience, questioning whether there is a limit to what it can show.
A 12-year-old boy turns to a charismatic loner for help after being beaten up at school, in director Miles Warren’s searing feature debut about fathers, families, and the effects of fighting.