The European Film Festival 2022 is finally here and they have a great line up of films in store for us. This 23rd edition of the festival will have 17 films on show, ranging from documentaries, dramas, comedies, and even an animated feature film. How do you choose which one to watch? Well, here are our top five picks.
Sister’s Apart
Language: German
Genre: Drama
Daphne Charizani’s film tells the story of Rojda, a Kurd soldier in the German military who volunteers to train female Kurdish soldiers in Iraq to fight ISIS. Rojda however has an ulterior motive and a secret that must not be discovered.
Gods of Molenbeek
Language: French
Genre: Documentary
While Molenbeek may seem to be the jihadi capital of Europe to some, but to Aatos and Amine, it’s just home. The two boys spend their time discussing the big things in life, like Aatos’ search for a God to compete with Amine’s Allah, listening to spiders, and finding black holes. This is a documentary about the innocence of children and how we can all learn to look at things without the distracting colours of life.
Madly In Life
Language: French
Genre: Drama, Comedy
What do you do when life answers your prayers, but only just kind of. Alex and Noémie are ready for a child, however when Alex’s mother contracts a neurodegenerative disease and goes from Suzanne the mother to Suzanne the unmanageable child, the couple have to learn how to turn the lemon into lemonade. A beautiful artistic look at the way relationships can shift, change, and evolve.
Goodwill Dumping
Language: Dutch
Genre: Documentary
A stylised and surrealist look at the afterlife of all our clothes. As fast fashion becomes more and more synonymous with our lives, what happens to all that discarded waste? Is donating your used t-shirts and trousers really best for the environment and everyone involved? Is that really the solution? Or are we just moving the problem from over here, to over there?
Doctor on Call
Language: Italian
Genre: Comedy
What do you get when a doctor with terrible bedside manners and a food delivery rider get into an accident that puts both their jobs at risk? Well you get tele-medicine at it’s purest form! Pierfrancesco can’t drive, and Mario’s bicycle is broken so they combine forces to use the former’s medical training and the latter’s able body to make house calls and attend to medical emergencies. Hilarity ensues!
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