Review: Zaho Zay (2020)
Finding a ghost is not easy and finding a particular person in prison where the inmates start looking and acting like one another resembles a search for a needle in a haystack.
June 2021
Review: All-In (2021)
All-In has some of the qualities of a good fiction cinema, while staying faithful to the documentary form
Review: Gorbachev. Heaven (2020)
Manskiy started filming Gorbachev at his home, “given” to him in the form of a life-long rentless lease by the presidents of the former Soviet republics at the moment of the collapse of the communist empire
Review: This Rain Will Never Stop (2020)
Gorlova lets herself and her colleagues Simon Mozgovyi and Olha Zhurba go wild in the editing department, spinning the film into an extremely moody, experimental direction while playing with the added “visual noise”.
Review: Her Mothers (2020)
Asia Dér & Sári Haragonics’ documentary ‘Her Mothers’ is an intimate, raw portrait of a lesbian couple who goes great lengths to fullfil their dream of having a family.
Review: Faya Dayi (2021)
Along with Beshir’s artistry, one of the film’s key assets is its filming location, the historical city of Harar in Eastern Ethiopia.
Review: Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror (2021)
The Canadian film writer, producer and festival programmer Kier-La Janisse tries to put her arms around everything connected to folk-horror in her very ambitious feature-length directorial debut ‘Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror’ that clocks over three hours and features a legion of film and literature scholars, journalists and filmmakers from all over the world.
Review: Strive, Strive, Strive (2021)
Atlético was the first Brazilian club to take a European tour after the World War II and to bring the Brazilian football to Europe and the European football to Brazil.
Programme overview: Vienna Shorts Austrian Competition 3 – Are You Receiving Me?
We need to “get” and “be gotten”, to “receive” and be “received”.
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