Contributions from Marina Ashioti | Little White Lies

Contributor Marina Ashioti

Marina Ashioti is a writer, artist, and the Community Editor at Little White Lies. She writes a bi-monthly column on queer visual culture for the magazine, and has had work published in several catalogues, magazines and publications. She is part of the artist collective Endrosia, which co-represented Cyprus at the 60th Venice Biennale.

Festivals

Sweet Dreams – first-look review

by Marina Ashioti

Ena Sendijarević hits the sweet spot with this offbeat, surreal period piece set on a remote Indonesian island.
Festivals

Animal – first-look review

by Marina Ashioti

Dimitra Vlagopoulou gives a knockout performance in Sofia Exarchou’s resort-set second feature about a group of seasonal performers.
Review

Kokomo City review – an impressively stylish debut

by Marina Ashioti

D Smith’s lively documentary offers a bold exploration of transness, womanhood, Blackness and the sex industry.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Review

Medusa

by Marina Ashioti

A blend of horror and satire unveiling the violent paradoxes of religious hypocrisy and aesthetic expectations.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
Review

Shabu

by Marina Ashioti

A teenager from Rotterdam attempts to make amends for totalling his grandmother’s car in Shamira Raphaëla’s fun, uplifting documentary.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
Review

The Damned Don’t Cry

by Marina Ashioti

Fyzal Boulifa’s second feature bears witness to the the dysfunctional bond between a mother-son duo as they drift through urban Morocco.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
3
In Retrospect
Review

No Hard Feelings

by Marina Ashioti

Jennifer Lawrence stars as a woman hired to ​“date” a wealthy couple’s introverted son in Gene Stupnitsky’s unfunny comedy.

3
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
Review

My Imaginary Country

by Marina Ashioti

A new vital work by Patricio Guzmán sees the documentary veteran turn his gaze towards a new generation of Chilean revolutionaries.

4
Anticipation
4
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect
Review

Mad About the Boy: The Noël Coward Story

by Marina Ashioti

Barnaby Thompson celebrates the multifaceted life and work of legendary playwright Noël Coward with a perfunctory profile doc.

3
Anticipation
2
Enjoyment
2
In Retrospect
Review

Under the Fig Trees

by Marina Ashioti

Developed alongside her cast of non-professional actors, Erige Sehiri builds an intimate fiction debut set in the Tunisian countryside.

3
Anticipation
3
Enjoyment
4
In Retrospect

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