«White Shadow,» the first feature from Berlin - based Israeli filmmaker Noaz Deshe, which plays Sundance this weekend having already picked up the Best Debut award in Venice, mired
us deep in this quandary, being a story, bruisingly told, set in the horrifying world of «albino hunting» in Tanzania, where local superstitions have led to a lucrative trade in albino body parts believed by witch doctors to have mystical properties.
In his works, Hartley expertly blends intelligent, ironic humor with dramatic incident, gripping his eccentric, usually obsessed, but always very passionate characters with
deep philosophical
quandaries.