Review: Uppercase Print (2020)
Radu Jude has earned his reputation as one of the loudest critics of the official stance Romania takes about the country’s crimes in the past.
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Review: Paola Makes a Wish (2019)
Just like a good meal starts with an appetizer, a good sexual intercourse starts with a foreplay. The food tastes more and more intense during the main course, and the tactile component intensifies during the intercourse itself.
Review: The Earth Is Blue as an Orange (2020), by Iryna Tsilyk
Every war is different, but all wars are somehow alike. That paradox is rarely a primary topic, but can be read between the lines of a multitude of war-themed documentaries that usually follow the same pattern.
Review: Mother (2019), by Kristof Bilsen
The Belgian documentarist Kristof Bilsen tackles a multitude of dualities in his newest feature-length work Mother. The film deals with topics of sickness and health, caring and being cared for, East and West, parents and children and is centered around a nursing home in North Thailand
Film Review: The Birthmark (2019), by Pia Ilonka Schenk Jensen and Bernhard Hetzenauer
Consuelo Salas narrates her testimony about her daughter’s disappearance and death in a calm and collected fashion in the short documentary The Birthmark directed by Pia Ilonka Schenk Jensen and Bernhard Hetzenauer.
Review: The Wedding Cake (2020), by Monica Mazzitelli
The winner of the RVK Feminist Film Festival’s International Sister competition is The Wedding Cake, a very peculiar animated short film written and directed by Monica Mazzitelli.
Review: Islandia (2018), by Eydís Eir Brynju-Björnsdóttir
Unfortunately, Islandia is a true story. The title card in the end of the film, just before the closing credits, informs us that its writer-director Eydís Eir Brynju-Björnsdóttir was raped by the employee of the hotel where she was staying in Antalya, Turkey and, while reporting the crime, charged for vandalism. She spent some time […]
Review: Flowers (2019), by Ismene Daskarolis
Can a perfect human being be constructed? That question preoccupied the imagination throughout the history of human kind.
Program Overview: Walls (Uppsala International Short Film Festival)
For 38 years, the Berlin Wall divided eastern and western part of the city, East and West Germany, Eastern and Western Block that were engaged in Cold War, and communist and capitalist system with their respective lifestyles. Until it fell, 30 years ago, signalling the victory of one side. That kind of a round anniversary […]
