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
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.
The suggested implications are actually a bit frightening, since the football fandom is less about the game and the club, and it serves more as a pressure group and recruitment camp for sinister things.
Two young women, one Persian immigrant and one German native, are in a relationship, but both of them have their personal “baggage” and agenda.
The highlight of the segment and also its most realistic entry is Joanny Causse’s American-French co-production ‘Rachels Don’t Run’
The programmers of NIFFF (Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival) have managed to compose a fine and diverse short film programme.
Both deep and wide in its scope, masterfully composed, whip-smart, perceptive and nurturing to every cinephile, ‘Lynch/Oz’ can sometimes feel overwhelming, and even a bit too much (…)
The focus on Asia that dominated this year’s (and also the last few years’) NIFFF also reflected in the selection of shorts, where the short films from Asia got their own slot. The most notable difference between the Asian, the international and the Swiss shorts programmes is that the Asian one is, well, the most […]
Neither Kovačević nor Radovanović preach in ‘Another Spring’, but having Radovanović, an open and vocal critic of the current Serbian régime and the way it handled the pandemic, is certainly a political statement.
