Teenie Girlfriends from Russia (2014)

'Little Woods' rethinks the Western genre and examines the misogyny and classism inherent in the healthcare industry.

Documented human suffering is never easy to view or read about and is understandably triggering for many people, but it can be educational, and education is a key to change. An overwhelming amount queer people worldwide (and in my own country) have it far worse than I could imagine, and documentaries such as Welcome to Chechnya bring issues to light that certain groups of people would never see.

Dead Poets Society relies on patriarchal tropes such as overbearing fathers, contrived brotherhood, and faux-individuality in order to portray its straight white male characters as oppressed.

For a young girl who wishes to keep her current traditions, this holiday will end up with a surprise twist.

I understood post-memory as passing down stories and images of one’s experiences that are not your own. For decades, rape has been depicted in cinema through a third-person perspective, leaving the viewer to observe rape; not to experience it. 

The repeated actions, the blood on the petals, the rustling under the floor…An ambient short horror film takes us into another realm.