Review: Soviet Friendsbook (2020)
Lead by her “anketa” and some Facebook searches, Alyona sets on the mission to track down her classmates some twenty years later to ask them the same, but also some different, “grown-up” questions.
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Review: Latvian Coyote (2019)
As it is the case with the titular animal, the term “coyote” for a human trafficker who knows the uncharted routes over the border, originates from the Mexican-American border.
Review: The Jump (2020)
On November 23rd 1970, in the midst of the negotiations between the American and Soviet representatives regarding the fishing of the coast of New England, a Lithuanian sailor Simas Kudirka jumped from his ship Soviet Lithuania, swam across the cold Atlantic waters and boarder the US Coast Guard ship Vigilant, pleading for the political asylum only to be turned down and given back to the Soviets.
Review: Forest (2020)
The world-wide lockdown of the spring of 2020 is slowly coming to the film screens, with the shorts leading the way for the feature-length work.
Review: En Route (2019)
Marit Weerheijm’s script is cleverly constructed in the way that there is no explanation whatsoever: we have to follow the trip in order to realize what Inay’s “game” is about.
Review: All Dogs Die (2020)
Filmed in a boxy 4:3 ratio, the film amplifies the anxiety and the existential dread its protagonist is facing.
Review: Nine Months (2020)
Nine Months premiered at the Checkers competition of Zagreb Film Festival, highlighting the irony that Lukić playing himself as the protagonist here once again wears the festival T-shirt in every frame of the film.
Review: Tesaurus (2020)
Grba Singh and his crew played with almost every aspect of filmmaking, making Tesaurus one of the most complex shorts of the year, topically and technically.
Review: Leave of Absence (2019)
Anton Sazonov’s strong and distressful short fiction film Leave of Absence premiered at the last year’s edition of Locarno, where it was awarded for the best direction in Leopards of the Future competition.
