August 2014. The United Kingdom refused entry visas to the famous Ugandan singer Bobi Wine. How did a homophobic rapper, banned from the UK, manage to become Uganda's presidential candidate? How did he manage, after a few years, to be welcomed in the USA and England as a hero of political correctness?

The phenomenon is explained with skill by the directors Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp in the beautiful documentary Bobi Wine Ghetto President, presented at the 79th Venice Film Festival.

Bobi Wine is brilliant, devoted. He is fun with the crowd, docile in the hands of promotion but also divisive for Ugandans.

Scala was a very famous cinema in Bangkok. The most iconic. This phase of dismantling is narrated tenderly in the documentary Scala, by young filmmaker Ananta Thitanat presented at the Bangkok World Film Festival 2022 in which it won the Grand Jury Prize.

The documentary closely follows the work of tearing down the interiors and furnishings of the theatre. The style of the building was brilliant, with an extended foyer, staircase, and a huge chandelier. They removed the red seats and unclean curtains. When they fell, the dust rose; it was the dust of the history of world cinema.

Countryside, fog, lots of fog, a car driving on a gloomy road. Inside are two women, mother and daughter. The journey ends in emptiness. In a square submerged in a thick haze, the car stops in front of the Moel Fanam Hall, an ancient English noble mansion, transformed into a luxury hotel.

This is the beginning of the film The Eternal Daughter by director Joanna Hogg, presented at the 79th Venice Film Festival.

It is the spectator's entertainment, guessing the secrets of the fog, the origin of odd rattles, the improbable characters, the solitude.

Reviews, news and analysis from 15. World Film Festival Bangkok, 2.12 11.12 2022

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Reviews, news and analysis from 79th Venice International Film Festival, Venice, 31.08 - 10.09 2022

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