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    “I don’t make a lot of films...I can only shoot what is essential to me”   --Director  Philippe Lacôte   in an interview to CNN titled "Machetes and Microbes: Why  Philippe Lacôte's Prison Drama Cuts Close to the Bone" (September 8, 2020)      F rench-Ivorian filmmaker Philippe Lacôte has made two feature films Run (2014) and Night of the Kings (2020), both officially submitted to the Oscar’s foreign language category by Côte d’Ivoire (former name: Ivory Coast), in respective years. Both films provide a marriage of documentary and narrative fiction styles, and both have international actors of repute playing major roles. Run has Côte d’Ivoire-born Isaach de Bankole (Jim Jarmusch’s actor in The Limits of Control/Coffee and Cigarettes/Ghost Dog-The Way of the Samurai ; Claire Denis’ actor in White Material/ Chocolat ) and Night of the Kings has Denis Lavant (Leos Carax’s actor in Holy Motors/The Lovers on the Bridge ); Claire Denis’ act...

“Why are you attacking your parents in court?” —Lebanese judge/magistrate to Zain, a 12-year-old Lebanese, already behind bars for a crime he has committed  “ For giving me life ”—Zain’s response T he year 2018 has seen the release of three interesting films from three distinct parts of the globe. Each of the three   are very interesting, have several common themes and have and will be competing against each other for major honours at different awards nights and film festivals. The three films are directors Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum (from Lebanon), Hirokazu   Kore’eda’s Shoplifters (from Japan) and Alfonso Cuaron’s Roma (from Mexico).   Zain (Zain al Rafaeea) pondering on ways to feed and take care of someone younger and more helpless All three films deal with multiple children and their families into which they are born-- for no fault of theirs.   All three films are original tales conceived and developed by the directors from their own experiences and imagin...

D ebut films of several directors worldwide have often been unforgettable, even when compared to their later works:   Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane, Satyajit Ray’s Pather Panchali (Song of the Little Road), Ridley Scott’s The Duellists, Steven Spielberg’s Duel, Jean-Pierre Melville’s The Silence of the Sea, Mike Nichols’ Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Claude Chabrol’s Handsome Serge, Bertrand Tavernier’s The Watchmaker of St Paul ...the list goes on.   That stamp of unmistakable awesome standards of filmmaking is apparent in Ash Mayfair’s debut feature film The Third Wife. Within minutes of the film’s opening credits an observant viewer gets a clue of the quality of the film that follows—intelligent use of visual editing in presenting the title of the film and the aesthetic and delicate balance between silence and music on the soundtrack. The Third Wife is an original tale written by the film’s director. It is set in the 19 th century Vietnam involving a rich nobleman liv...