The appeal of dark academia lies – in part – in the vulnerability of its characters. The genre helps students to realise how important relationships are.
The Heartbreaking ‘Our Friend’ is Insightful and Moving: A True Story of Love and Friendship in the Face of Grief
MarioYuwono is from Indonesia, but was born in Italy and attended school in Jakarta, Moscow, Berlin and Los Angeles. He has been obsessed with films ever since he saw his first movie at the age of five, and would go on to spend his younger years reading film encyclopedias and movie guides. Combined with a global upbringing rooted in greater social awareness, this drives him to be more observant of values promoted in films. He believes in cinema’s potential to enable greater empathy and meaningfully expand people’s horizons, in line with