Review: Microbiome (2022)
‘Microbiome’ could be interpreted as the short- and documentary extension to the Greek “weird wave” present in the fiction features that also tend to be a bit scientific and more than a bit anthropological (…)
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Sarajevo review: It’s Not Cold for Mosquitoes (2022)
If it was not official after ‘Summer Fruits’ (2019), ‘White Christmas’ and ‘Nine Months’ (both from 2020), now it became clear that Josip Lukić’s own family-themed documentary phase (2018 ‘Momsy’ and 2019 ‘The Rex Will Sail In’) is over
Locarno review: That’s How the Summer Ended (2022)
A joy for one person can be a pain for the other.
Locarno review: Fairplay (2022)
‘Fairplay’ is a complexly envisioned mosaic film that proves the point in an extremely audience-friendly package blending thriller, drama and social satire.
Locarno review: Serafina (2022)
The two stories, one individual portrait of a person used to exist in quite rigid and uneventful environment marked by the never-changing routines, and a group portrait of “easy riders”, come to a joint end in the setting resembling a Western movie, dipped in warm colours of the 16mm footage.
Locarno review: Daron, Daron, Colbert
Daron is the hero and the subject of Kevin Steen’s short documentary ‘Daron, Daron Colbert’ that world- premiered at Locarno.
Locarno review: Last Screening (2022)
Last Screening is a bit of an antithesis to ‘Kairat’, coming thirty years later, and set in a very interesting geopolitical context.
Locarno review: Neighbour Abdi (2022)
Abdi is a character that is easy to sympathize with, but the most interesting layer in this story is a meta- one, about the use of technology and the modelling work to tell a story in a sincere and compelling way
Locarno review: At Little Wheelie Three Days Ago (2022)
As the species, we tend to believe what we see more than what we hear someone says, but outside the context, a tabloid picture or the viral video from the internet is still equal to a rumour.
