Exposure

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APPRECIATE:

Reviews of works, especially positive, that help an audience regard the film deeper.

CHALLENGE:

Op-eds or dissenting pieces that provide something different from the mainstream.

CONSIDER:

Reviews, criticisms or pieces that view the art through a new, specific or varied lens.

THINK:

Essays that delve deeper into the theoretical aspects of film, often academic in nature.

Umar Al Khair Bin Zainal Muttakin 9/27/25 Umar Al Khair Bin Zainal Muttakin 9/27/25

Watching Foragers (2022) in Singapore: Who’s The Coloniser?

In his thoughtful review of Jumana Manna’s documentary Foragers (2022), Programmer Umar Al Khair examines Palestinian resistance and encourages readers to question what it means to inhibit the positions we occupy.

Gillo Pontecorvo says: Arise, Wretched of the Earth!

Through an incisive comparison of Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 La Bataille D’Algers and Frantz Fanon’s 1961 Wretched of the Earth, Umar Al Khair Bin Zainal Muttakin pens a powerful essay about colonialism, rooted in both the past and the present.