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Documentary Review: Teens ease the transition to adulthood via The Outdoors, Sled Dogs and “Folktales”
It’s billed as “the best years of your life,” the teenaged Romain complains in “Folktales,” the new documentary about teens, sled dogs and the wilderness “Folk” schools of Norway. Socially maladjusted, shy and withdrawn Romain has figured out that the … Continue reading
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Tagged art, documentary, film, folk-schools-of-norway, jesus-camp, norway, sled-dogs, sundance
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Movie Review: Kurdish Immigrant in Norway gets a Visit from “My Uncle Jens”
Akam is a young teacher who instructs kids from many cultures in the finer points of reading and writing in Norwegian, but who rarely gives a thought to his own Kurdish heritage. Until that night his the doorbell of his … Continue reading
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Tagged iran, kurdish-comedy, kurdistan, movie-review, norway, norwegian-film, peshmarga, writing
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Netflixable? WWII Underground Agent “Number 24 (Nr. 24)” tells kids what’s called for when you Fight Fascism
One of the smartest places Netflix has put its international production money is Scandivanian World War II films. A collection of true or “inspired by” true stories have shown us forgotten heroics, sacrifice, treachery and air raids that went wrong. … Continue reading
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Tagged fascism, history, movie-review, netflix, norway, politics, world-war-ii-movie
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