Female Film Critics 24/375
In an unusual but appropriate twist, FLEE has been considered for an Oscar in three categories: animation, documentary, and international feature. FLEE triumphs on these tripartite bases as not only an innovative work of animation but also a document of the life of a refugee.
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The oppressed legal status of women in Afghanistan is well known and even more distressing with the recent Taliban takeover. Providing important insights, in particularizing the experiences of two Afghan women, directors Clementine Malpas and Sam French add alarming details to that more general understanding of exactly what this lived legal, cultural subjugation means and the ways even the European Union supports that inequitable system.
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Rock and roll has always been about rebellion, but RocKabul, a documentary about a heavy metal band in Afghanistan, takes that idea to a whole new level. What makes the story so riveting is that these guys literally risk their lives to play their music.
Read moreConsider “Restrepo” a real-life version of “The Hurt Locker.” With the tagline “One platoon, one year, one valley,” the documentary
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