To the world, Beraat Gökkuş is known as an accomplished journalist and mobile moviemaker. But in the opening title card of “Entre-retiens,” he reveals a different identify. He writes: “I’m a refugee.” Born in Turkey, he faced French authorities three times, seeking to establish permanent residency. While waiting to learn his fate, he documented the world…
read more →Art has many goals. Common objectives include: to thrill us, to make us laugh, to give life to the past, and to envision the future. Rarer is the aim of showing us what we’d rather ignore. Picasso took on this challenge with his anti-war masterpiece “Guernica.” And now we have Nico Piro’s “Bosnia, where Europe ends.”…
read more →If you visit Las Vegas and lose all your money, there’s a good way to cheer yourself up. Travel 50 miles out of town to the astonishingly beautiful Valley of Fire. Or if you’re not into delayed gratification, take a look at “A Journey into the Valley of Fire,” a two-minute ShotonIPhone documentary that shows off…
read more →“Charlie on the M.T.A.” is one of the most famous folk songs of all time. Performed by The Kingston Trio in 1959, the lyrics tell the story of a man stuck in the Boston underground system. Originally written to protest a fare increase, the song sold millions of copies. More relevant to this post, it…
read more →“Missed Call” documents a boy’s quest to reconnect with a father he hadn’t seen for many years. The film’s visual imagery, story structure, and editing are stunning. But what you’re most likely to remember is the documentary’s searing honesty. The director Victoria Mapplebeck not only captures her son as he deals with difficult emotions. She…
read more →“Je suis Liberté” (“I am Freedom”) has taken the grand prize in the first annual Mobile Film Festival: Africa. Directed by Senegalese filmmaker Marcel Moussa Diouf, the one-minute drama pictures a dying woman who personifies freedom. The woman is surrounded by teenagers who are so engrossed in their smartphones that they don’t notice what’s happening…
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