(Dieser Artikel erschien zuerst in der "Rheinpfalz") Die Kanadierin Lia (Devery Jacobs) in „The Sun at Midnight/Mitternachtssonne“ wird ebenso wie der Franzose Nassim (Khaled Alouach) in „De tout mes forces/Machs gut!“ durch den plötzlichen Tod der Mutter aus dem bisherigen Leben gerissen. Der Junge geht auf ein angesehenes Gymnasium in Paris, alle Türen standen ihm…
Documentaries from the Arab world can often be intensely personal, with filmmakers using their own lives, experiences and surroundings as a first – and often tentative – step towards a whole world of stories they might ultimately want to tackle. This can be tedious, to be sure, since not every life is fit for public…
While truly great filmmakers have often been able to tell a story without us noticing the narrative devices they so cleverly employ, the same cannot be said for many of today's independent films, since – more often than not – they get rid of that pesky storytelling element altogether. Why bother with a plot, for…