Review: Forest (2020)
The world-wide lockdown of the spring of 2020 is slowly coming to the film screens, with the shorts leading the way for the feature-length work.
The world-wide lockdown of the spring of 2020 is slowly coming to the film screens, with the shorts leading the way for the feature-length work.
Marit Weerheijm’s script is cleverly constructed in the way that there is no explanation whatsoever: we have to follow the trip in order to realize what Inay’s “game” is about.
Filmed in a boxy 4:3 ratio, the film amplifies the anxiety and the existential dread its protagonist is facing.
Nine Months premiered at the Checkers competition of Zagreb Film Festival, highlighting the irony that Lukić playing himself as the protagonist here once again wears the festival T-shirt in every frame of the film.
Grba Singh and his crew played with almost every aspect of filmmaking, making Tesaurus one of the most complex shorts of the year, topically and technically.
Anton Sazonov’s strong and distressful short fiction film Leave of Absence premiered at the last year’s edition of Locarno, where it was awarded for the best direction in Leopards of the Future competition.
A young man wanders through the ruin of what could be his childhood home full of memories and questions that feel like nails in his brain.
Technically competent, narratively elliptical and ambiguous, I’m Not Telling You Anything, Just Sayin’ is a potential festival darling.
It all begins with an old suitcase Vladimir, assuming the role of the narrator and our principal guide, finds in the attic of his late mother’s house.
Enter your name, email address and a message.