Review: Haute Cuisine (2019)
Marie, played by Joséphine Japy with well-calibrated fragility, wants to be a chef and is proud to be the newest employee at the restaurant owned by Bruno Mercier (Phillippe Résimont), a famous Michelin-star chef
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Review: Big vs. Small (2020)
The number one protagonist of the film is Joana Andrade, one of the rare women that compete in big wave surfing. We meet her “at work”, in the fishing village of Nazarené known for the biggest waves in the world
Review: The Social Dilemma (2020)
When we talk about the ethics and the humaneness (or the lack of them both) of the social media, two key arguments are the notion that “if you are not paying for the product, then you are the product” and that all the social media offers to is algorithm-based. Both of those arguments could also be used against the film’s distributor.
Review: Bulgarian Dream (2019)
Bulgarian Dream is, from its first- to the last shots followed by a textual info-card presenting epilogue of Petra’s migration to Bulgaria, also sharing the information that she is just one of over 10.000 German retirees to live in Bulgaria.
Review: Twins Woven from Dreams (2020)
The audiences tend to imagine prison life based on the works of fiction, pretty much all uniformed: there is a pressure from the outer ranks (the sadistic guards) and from within (the fellow inmates) accompanied by senseless violence. While it works as a template for Hollywood prison dramas, the reality (at least in the Continental Europe) is slightly different.
Review: I Pledge… (2020)
Military service was compulsory in the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and every young man between 19-27 years of age had to spend 12 months in the army, mostly doing nonsensical tasks, obeying the commanding officers and being indoctrinated.
Review: History of Civilization (2020)
While Alshanova’s previous short Paula Makes a Wish (developed through a workshop at last year’s Locarno) was quite unique in its approach and humour incorporated in a brief 8-minute runtime, History of Civilization seems more like a classic work in the field of festival-friendly short dramas.
Review: Belonging (2020)
The destiny of the so called Donauschwaben, ethnic Germans that lived in the former Yugoslavia, Hungary and Romania is well-documented, well-known and quite tragic, but in some countries like Serbia any notion of talk on that topic is still considered a taboo.
Review: Cornelian Cherries (2020)
Nikola Stojanović depicts the events surrounding the death of his mother’s dog to create a documentary about grieving and the estranged family coming back together.
