Three hijab-clad young girls sing REM.'S Losing my religion and record their performance. Like how Chekhov's gun, hanging on the wall, inevitably fires at the end of the play, so does the filmed video surface on the Internet, becoming a viral hit. Kurdish-Austrian director Kurdwin Ayub's story is quite unlike classic narratives about teenagers. Sonne's female protagonist is Muslim, and the social stereotypes certainly do not encourage a Muslim woman to have success on the Internet. And yet, the story…
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Belonging 2019
The film deliberately avoids giving explanations and concrete answers. There's almost no mention of the motives for the crime, since nobody’s sure about them. The director fills these gaps with cinematic expression. What effect can a story have if you first tell it methodically, showing rooms full of cold emptiness, and then tell the same story with the characters suddenly in the frame, filling this emptiness with human warmth? A battle of bare facts and artistic reality is waged between the two halves of Belonging, pointedly asking which of these is more truthful.
