Film Festival reViews

Diabolical, Sinister, Evil are but a few choice words that come to mind after being witness to a world premiere screening of The Russian Woodpecker, a mindblowing, detective trail leading to a jawdropping assertion that the Chernobyl nuclear disaster was no accident. It was a cold and calculated decision made by a call from Moscow.

Lead singer of punk rock band, Traitors, Malika (Chaimae Ben Acha) engages her feminine heroic as she tries to find a way to change her world and escape the traditional life mapped out for women in Tangiers emulating Joe Strummer of the Clash, I’m so bored with Morocco but what can I do? In the […]

Facing racism, sexism, exclusion and just plain dismissal from a male dominant music establishment, The Girls in the Band, a documentary directed by Judy Chaikin, is about female big band and jazz instrumentalists whose stories and experiences as women overcame social and gender repressive obstacles to just wanting to play their music– in bands, in […]