Allan Hunter
Writer at Freelance
Critic at Screen Daily
Film lover, film programmer, film historian.
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screendaily.com | Allan Hunter
Jean-Francois Ravagnan’s debut traces the impact of Pateh Sabally’s 2017 death in Venice Dir: Jean-Francois Ravagnan. Belgium/France/Qatar. 2024. 71mins The Last Shore goes beyond the headlines to reclaim a life lost in tragic circumstances. Jean-Francois Ravagnan’s absorbing debut feature combines anguished family testimony and mournful images to piece together the story of Pateh Sabally, a Gambian migrant who drowned in Venice’s Grand Canal in 2017.
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screendaily.com | Allan Hunter
David Bim’s hypnotic black-and-white documentary debuts at Visions du Reel Dir/scr: David Bim. Cuba/Spain. 2025. 75mins The daily struggle to survive and put food on the table is keenly felt in David BIM’s debut feature To The West, In Zapata. Bim’s observational documentary captures some extraordinary moments as it follows the extreme challenges facing one Cuban family when the Covid-19 pandemic rages through their country.
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screendaily.com | Allan Hunter
Close-quarters doc is a study of a family on the margins Dir: Monica Stromdahl. Norway, Netherlands, US. 2025. 78mins All the odds are stacked against 12 year-old Mikal in Flophouse America. Monica Stromdahl’s unflinching documentary captures a portrait of a child whose life is defined by poverty, instability and the alcoholism of his parents. Those disadvantages are balanced by a great reservoir of love and good intentions in these family ties.
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2 weeks ago |
screendaily.com | Allan Hunter
Boca Chica, Texas lives with the thrills and unquantifiable spills of the space race Dir/scr: Julien Elie. Canada. 2024. 100mins Focused around Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starbase In Boca Chica, Texas, Julien Elie’s intelligent, multifaceted documentary Shifting Baselines constructs a vivid mosaic of the romance and the hazards of space exploration.
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1 month ago |
screendaily.com | Allan Hunter
Nepal-set documentary bows at SXSW Dirs: Sonam Choekyi Lama, Ben Ayers, Andrew Lynch. UK. 2025. 96mins The spectacular-looking Snow Leopard Sisters deftly illuminates global concerns through personal stories. Charting the friendship between two indigenous women in the high Himalayas, it conveys a vivid sense of the tensions between tradition and modernity regarding conservation issues, lifestyle choices and communities trying to escape the long shadow of patriarchy.
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