Food Movie ‘Mistura’ Seasons Peruvian Identity Too Lightly
Ricardo de Montreuil’s historical melodrama, Mistura, celebrates Peru’s culinary plurality while sidelining those who sustain it.
Guilherme Quireza
Guilherme Quireza is a Brazilian film critic and contributing editor at PopMatters. Writing in English and Portuguese, he focuses on contemporary cinema, film festivals, genre, and the circulation of international cinema across cultural contexts. His criticism is especially interested in how film form organizes social, political, and aesthetic meaning. His work has appeared in PopMatters, Bright Lights Film Journal, In Review Online, High On Films, and other international outlets.
‘Renoir’ Faces the Uglier Parts of Grieving
Chie Hayakawa’s deeply personal Renoir is a harsh and intimate portrait of childhood, examining a grief that arrives without clear form or catharsis.
The Terrible Force of Kim Nguyen’s ‘Saigon Story’
Kim Nguyen’s Saigon Story revisits Eddie Adams’ iconic execution photograph and follows the families still living with what the Vietnam War (aka the American War) – and that image – exposed.
‘The Delivery Line’ Gently Returns to You
Nance Ackerman’s The Delivery Line follows five midwives working where birth is surrounded by danger, poverty, displacement, and neglect. The brightness is small, but it is there.
Chile Under Pinochet: A Film Chronology of Dictatorship and Memory
From the 1973 coup to its afterlives in national memory, these films trace violence, silence, resistance, and the ways Chile continues to confront Pinochet’s violent legacy.
‘The Red Hangar’ Warns of Criminal Obedience Amidst Rising Fascism
In The Red Hangar, the first day of Chile’s 1973 coup becomes a tightening moral trap, as an Air Force captain watches military routine turn into open repression.
‘A Yard of Jackals’ and the Sound of Dictatorship
Sound editing is crucial in Chilean horror film A Yard of Jackals; we see nothing (thankfully), yet we can imagine in rich detail everything.
‘Amrum’ Presents Wartime Distress with Visual Grace
Fatih Akin’s visually beautiful wartime drama, Amrum, turns a child’s survival into a memory handed from one talented filmmaker to another.
Sound of Falling’s Slow Exhaustion of Memory
In Mascha Schilinski’s moody psychological drama Sound of Falling, we sense that a place can outlast the lives shaped inside it: what happened there does not disappear.
‘I Swear’ Is Carried by Robert Aramayo’s Performance
Robert Aramayo’s performance in Tourette syndrome drama I Swear is the leap in his career: the performance that turns his early promise into an actor we are compelled to watch.
‘Palestine 36’ and the Limits of a Settled History
A film about Palestine does not need to claim neutrality. The trouble is that Palestine 36, despite its force, oversimplifies the complicated history.
‘Broken Voices’ Records the Sound of Institutional Abuse
Drawing on the scandal around one of the Czech Republic’s most admired choirs, Broken Voices shows, once again, how institutions meant to exalt can perpetuate abuse.