All posts by Sedef Hekimgil
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Hippocrate – Review ★★★
Medical dramas – they all seem to be the ‘in’ thing. It’s almost a craze that never quite went away, be it the saga of the...
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Respire (Breathe) – Review ★★★
Ah, high school… Now it feels like a long-lost and slightly surreal world, many light years away. But try and remember, if you can, those...
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My French Film Festival – Shorts Competition
One of the joys of an online film festival is, of course, that one can take ones time and watch the every last entrant in...
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Programme Preview: My French Film Festival 2015
My French Film Festival is an online film festival showcasing recent French films or films made in French speaking territories. Yes folks, you heard correctly,...
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Comment J’ai Deteste Les Maths (How I Came to Hate Maths) – Review ★★★
Human nature pushes us to go towards what we love and away from what we hate. This is possibly why the hate of mathematics –...
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Dust in the Mouth (La Tierre en la Lengua) – Review ★★★
The second film of the “Columbian section” of the festival takes the viewer away from the coasts and inland towards the Great Plains of Casanare....
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Chasing Fireflies (Cazando Luciernagas) – Review ★★★★
On Sunday, the Discovering Latin America Film Festival turned its proverbial headlights onto Columbian cinema. Chasing Fireflies was the first of the films to be...
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To Kill a Man (Matar a un Hombre) – Review ★★★★
The Discovering Latin America Film Festival is back for the 10th year running and if the gala was anything to go by we have quite...
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UK Film Festival – Class Enemy – Review ★★★
Up for the prestigious Lux prize in this year’s UK Film festival is Class Enemy. Class Enemy may be writer and director Rok Bicek’s first...
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Bronx Obama – Review ★★★
We all dream of “making it big” right? Come on, you know what I mean, especially if you were hit with a period of financial...