Reflections 7
How I am deciding what to watch is, potentially, the most troubling aspect, though, and gives testament to what cinemas are best ...
Reflections 6: What does it mean to contribute to film criticism?
Yesterday, eight artistic directors of hefty European film festivals attended the opening night of the 77th Venice International Film Festival. Press releases ...
Reflections 5
I can’t write if I don’t read. This is because I don’t invent, I respond; to art, to others, and even to ...
Reflections 4
I have started watching films, exploring artwork and understanding the world in the same way that I do my grocery shopping. One ...
Reflections 3
I don’t watch much, anymore; binge-watching makes me ache and devouring cinema like popcorn is too loud and too crunchy for my ...
The Process is the Practice
In Sachs’ work all I find – and all I want to find – is respectful practice. There is more than just ...
Austrian Music Video Award goes to Rupert Höller
The winner of the Austrian Music Video Award -is Rupert Höller for his black & white, 4 minutes long video "Über Nacht" ...
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Austrian Music Video Award goes to Rupert Höller
7Interviews
Interview: Monica Mazzitelli, the director of “The Wedding Cake” (2020)
With her latest short “The Wedding Cake”, Monica Mazzitelli won the international short film competition at the RVK feminist Film Festival, which kicked off in January this year.
Interview: Eydís Eir Brynju-Björnsdóttir, the director of Islandia (2018)
Eydís Eir Brynju-Björnsdóttir studied directing and script writing at the Icelandic Film School, and has gathered experience in the film production. With her debut short film Islandia, a very personal take on her own traumatic experience, she steered controversy in her home country by openly addressing the sensitive topic of rape…
Documentaries
Review: Big vs. Small (2020)
The number one protagonist of the film is Joana Andrade, one of the rare women that compete in big wave surfing. We meet her “at work”, in the fishing village of Nazarené known for the biggest waves in the world
Shorts
Review: Hungry Joe (2019)
Before you start watching Paul Holbrook’s & Sam Dawe’s short horror Hungry Joe, make sure your stomache’s empty.
Experimental Films
Review: Bos (2020)
Geypens plays with one-dimensional understanding of the universe and our perception of what is above and what below the ground. Connection between human beings and the nature is put to the test.
Review: Bulgarian Dream (2019)
Bulgarian Dream is, from its first- to the last shots followed by a textual info-card presenting epilogue of Petra’s migration to Bulgaria, also sharing the information that she is just one of over 10.000 German retirees to live in Bulgaria.
Review: Haute Cuisine (2019)
Marie, played by Joséphine Japy with well-calibrated fragility, wants to be a chef and is proud to be the newest employee at the restaurant owned by Bruno Mercier (Phillippe Résimont), a famous Michelin-star chef
Review: Faceless (2020)
No matter how the political mainstream in Croatia wants to control the narrative about the country’s first and war-time president Franjo Tuđman as the “father of the nation”, he remains the controversial figure that, like a skeleton, jumps out of the closet around the elections time.
Open Calls
Open Call for Circle 2020
CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator announces the call for an exclusive one-year training program.
