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Experience a visual journey of childhood innocence in ‘The History Student’

Irish film director Graham Jones (The Randomers) explores childhood innocence and cultural upbringing in his latest feature The History Student. A blendĀ of documentary and drama, The History Student follows Jones’s young son Aidan (known in the film as Filomonek) who is visiting his grandfather’s forest hut in rural Poland. Forced to speak only Polish whilst there, The History Student explores what it’s like for children … Continue reading Experience a visual journey of childhood innocence in ‘The History Student’

What Foreign Language Adds To Film; the original vs the remake

Language is an important thing. Wherever you’re from, whatever your native tongue, language is obviously a massive part of our daily lives. It’s easy to take for granted the beauty and the intricateness of language when we’re speaking the one we’ve known since we were knee-high to a grasshopper but start learning a new language, or do something so simple as watch a foreign-language film … Continue reading What Foreign Language Adds To Film; the original vs the remake