The love story in Simmer is painted in believable colours, with only few moments of actual physical closeness including a heart-racing sex scene that doesn’t become completely explicit, but grows into a declaration of true love.
The film is interesting in terms of different techniques and expression forms coming together, but it doesn’t take enough of emotional distance from its main character.
The directorial duo André Rodrigues & João Pais da Silva do what they can with the script written by Tiago Laranjo that borrows from many genre tropes without having developed them to the maximum, and with a very slim budget
Plundering as an act of everything that church officially stands against, but that it had employed for centuries to accumulate its own wealth, turns into a metaphor of sorts.
Guileful on many levels, the script leaves us with a plenitude of questions not turning annoying by not providing definite answers.
The short animation drama Wade, written and directed by Upamanyu Bhattacharyya & Kalp Sanghvi isn’t that much of a horror film as a premonition of a terrifying, near future.
How difficult it is to please one’s parents is a story as old as the history of humankind. Let’s not even rewind that film or dare look into the now and at our own therapy bills
Some kids are simply unbeatable in the crying department, as is the case in SHHHH, short genre drama by the Israeli director Jonathan Mordechai.
Animation done by the writer/ director Cyprien Nozières wanders from super cute to dystopian surrealism with claustophobic walls and shadows, brushes over fantastic realism and transforms into a food slasher.
