Assuming faces is required, the following 22 results were found.
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France, Germany, Côte d’Ivoire 2025) ***½ Directed by Achille Ronaimou Fast-paced with the urgency that the protagonist faces, DIYA is the local African term for the price of blood. Dane (Ferdinand Mbaissané, winner of the Best Actor award at FESPACO...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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the father’s birthday, and at the end, another anniversary. Events evolve, causing drifts in political views, and the family faces problems trying to stay together as a whole. The strong political leaning of the film is apparent from the very beginning,...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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is a psychiatrist, the one who has Renata as a patient, which is interesting: she’s in the field of mental health, but she faces her own vulnerabilities. She deals with family dynamics, especially in relation to Renata’s situation. Her story is about...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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instead fights desperately to save her child from the rising waters. Amid the chaos and shrinking hope for survival, An-na faces a dilemma: she is also uniquely linked to a crucial mission that might hold the key to humanity’s future, forcing her to...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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the animation holds its own, with colours matching the alien promise with concentration on the details of the characters’ faces that highlight the emotions of the story. CHARLIE THE WONDERDOG opens in theatres January 16th. Trailer: L’ETRANGER (THE...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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and belief that education is useless for their rural, traditional life in Sardinia. In the film DJ AHMET, the protagonist faces the same dilemma; even though the father does not physically remove his son from the classroom, there is a message to Ahmet...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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population. Music transcends everything, including war. The choral master worked in Germany for several years and therefore faces prejudice against his hiring for the task. The film is set in a fictional town in Yorkshire. It is all very English, and if...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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events for young Black adults, the organization was nominated as Best Event Planning Company at the 2023 Ottawa Awards by Faces Magazine, a reflection of its growing influence. Event details at a glance The showcase is structured to encourage early...
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- Author: News Editor
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rage. When confronted once more by her father’s killer, who is her father’s evil brother who has usurped the throne, Scarlet faces her most daunting battle: can she break the cycle of hatred and find meaning in life beyond revenge? The film explores...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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if felt in many of the film’s set pieces. One is the bureaucratic nightmare in which the young prosecutor, Kornyev, faces when he enters the government building to make an appointment with the prosecutor general - a sequence that lasts 15 minutes of...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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herself on Amrum, while the villagers secretly listen to proscribed jazz on the radio. As the war draws to a close, Nanning faces new challenges. Since the birth of his sister and the death of Adolf Hitler, his mother has fallen into a deep depression...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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the different points of view of the accused murderers and the victims, with intimate camera work often blending close-ups of faces showing emotional tension with distant shots. The multiple themes of repression, privilege, colonialism, and social unease...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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the Troll Wall in Norway. (The wall is now banned from climbing. From all the menace that the Charlize Theron character faces, the film feels very much like the 1971 Sam Peckinpah film THE STRAW DOGS. Baltasar Kormákur is an Icelandic director famous...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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Even up to the early age of 13. There, the rules are simple: no men, no weapons, no politics. When Layal’s younger brother faces enlistment, she reunites with her estranged sister to save the one life they still can. This is a female-oriented film with...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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turnout from across the Weston area. Hot meals are also available. Given that Weston has a large BIPOC population and faces compounding challenges around food insecurity, rising grocery costs and community safety, this consistency of access is not a...
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- Author: AfroToronto Team
- Category: Food and Drink
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are assembled for Operation Overlord, the massive invasion of Nazi-occupied France. Supreme Commander Dwight D. Eisenhower faces enormous pressure from military commanders demanding that the attack begin immediately. Every extra day risks leaks, German...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
- Category: Movie Reviews
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he did not perform well on the football field. The film also focuses on what it is like for a sportsman to retire. Poldi faces the dilemma at the age of 40, at the time of making this doc. The film can be praised for presenting a more personal portrait...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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the elite Jiaolong Squad in a high-stakes mission. The battlefield beneath the ocean is fraught with danger as the squad faces relentless traps, and the submarine engages in a series of intense confrontations with the enemy. As they manoeuvre through...
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- Author: Gilbert Seah
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boards and organizations to diversify rapidly. Black fundraisers were suddenly in high demand. Recruitment accelerated. New faces appeared in boardrooms and executive suites. By 2023, many of those same professionals had been dismissed or had resigned....
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- Author: AfroToronto Team
- Category: Business and Innovation
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of artistic exploration, following a heroine on a classic hero's journey as she leaves behind the familiar, confronts fear, faces trials and sacrifice, and ultimately claims her power. Choreographed by Mensah, ZAYO blends Afrofusion movement with modern...
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- Author: Meres J. Weche
- Category: Arts and Entertainment
