Review: Aswang (2019)
All things considered, Aswang is a solid debut and a film with its heart at the right place that could do well at the human rights type of the film festivals.
All things considered, Aswang is a solid debut and a film with its heart at the right place that could do well at the human rights type of the film festivals.
The Verdict… has several strong points, such as portraying of the often neglected milieu of the Viennese Turkish community, their mechanisms of co-operation in the world that they often experience as foreign.
Fonsny’s film, dedicated to Adami and other immigrant victims of the Belgian police brutality, is a deft and coherent composition of its elements
Is a stolen bicycle that propels the story of the injustice in society and offers some much needed reflection to the characters and the viewers a gimmick, an homage to Vittorio de Sica’s seminal film, or an eternal metaphor?
The rigidity of the structures imposed can backfire in the unexpected, yet devastating ways.
On the visual level, the film works quite well, taking the warmth of the analogue cinematography handled by Kao Tzu Hao
Sometimes the destination remains unknown, but the journey is all that matters
Dimitris Anagnostou’s short film Mare Nostrum would be a very ambitious piece of cinema, even if it were not a first-time effort.
Macri’s Pond premiered last October at Chicago International Film Festival and has earned the nomination for the Hugo award in the Best Short category.
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