The Bermuda International Film Festival screened The Attack last night, a gripping drama about a Palestinian doctor working in Israel. Dr. Amin Jaafari (Ali Suliman) is an Arab working in a Jewish world, he’s a prominent and successful surgeon, has a beautiful wife, and friends. But when a suicide bomb claims the lives of 17…
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Bermuda International Film Festival – The Network – Eva Orner
Screening last night at the Liberty Theater (seat A8 yet again) for the Bermuda International Film Festival was a brilliant documentary that had only screened at SXSW previously. The Network follows the first media group blossoming and developing during the continued growing pains that fill its home country, Afghanistan. The Mohseni family returned to their…
Bermuda International Film Festival – Unfinished Song (aka Song For Marion)- Paul Andrew Williams
This film, the festival’s centerpiece, marks the midway point of the festival, and it seemed to be a good turn out for it. I wandered back into the Liberty Theater last night, and quickly settled into a seat I’m quickly beginning to see as mine – A8 (that’s odd… I just realized my seat on…
Bermuda and Back Again: A Happy Hobbit’s Return Home and a Film Festival Part 5
I was kind of glad for the rain today, as I learned even if you can go home, some things you’ll find are irreparably changed and it can shake you a bit. So I’m not saying there were some tears in rain today, but I’m not denying it either. I went down Somerset and Dockyard…
Bermuda International Film Festival – Stories We Tell – Sarah Polley
It makes an odd kind of sense to me that I came all the way to Bermuda for BIFF to see a Canadian film. Having grown up here between the years of 84 to 89 the entire trip has been awash in memories of my own, and the own story of my life, which as…
Bermuda International Film Festival – Beyond the Hills – Cristian Mungiu
There’s a reason this film won the best screenplay prize at Cannes and the two leads shared the best actress prize and the audience at Liberty Theater in Hamilton, Bermuda found out why Sunday afternoon as it made an appearance at the Bermuda International Film Festival. It’s a brilliant adaptation of Tatiana Nicolescu Bran’s non-fiction…
Bermuda and Back Again: A Happy Hobbit’s Return Home and a Film Festival Part 4
I’ve been cruising round the island on my rented scooter, and I have to tell you, it took me a couple days to get back into the groove of the thing. I used to bomb around the island on my moped, taking the curves and corners at speed, or at least that’s the way I…
Bermuda International Film Festival – In The Hour of Victory – Lucinda Spurling, Andrew Kirkpatrick
This was one of the films I was most intent on seeing when I first toyed with the idea of coming to the Bermuda International Film Festival. Based on the book of the same name, it chronicles through his own letters to his wife Faith Bower, Bermuda-born Major Toby Smith’s service in World War II….
Bermuda International Film Festival – The Act of Killing – Joshua Oppenheime
The second film to be screened at BIFF was a documentary that proved to be a tough watch. To clarify, it’s not a bad film at all, its just the subject matter is particularly harsh. It was also the first film I’d seen in the Liberty Theater since I left in 89, and I took…
Bermuda and Back Again: A Happy Hobbit’s Return Home and a Film Festival Part 2
The first night back, and it was amazing. I wandered around St. Georges reacquainting myself with the lay of the land, and a couple things struck me right away… I forgot the smell, the salt water of the ocean mixing with hibiscus and fern, and I forgot the quiet. It settles right down at night,…
The Mind Reels 