Review: Saudi Runaway (2020)
Susanne Regina Meures’ Saudi Runway opens with thoughts expressed by a young Saudi woman Muna who’s asking herself if Allah really wanted women to live like second-degree humans who should have no opinion.
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Review: Days of Cannibalism (2020)
As a school kid in a socialist country, I was told that “America and England will become proletarian one day”, with workers in western countries rising to take control over their workplaces and lives. From today’s perspective, I am less surprised that such a thing never happened than about what has become of former, or […]
Review: Always Amber (2020)
The Swedish filmmakers Lia Hietala and Hannah Reinikaien are filmmakers who after a couple of short films have joined forces to shoot their debut feature documentary Always Amber about a queer, non-binary seventeen-year-old called Amber
Review: Sodom & Gomorrah (2019)
of the most memorable titles from the Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival’s international competition is a one-man experimental documentary Sodom & Gomorrah
Film Review: Route 3 (2019), by Thanasis Neofotistos
Route 3 , the sixth short film by the Greek director, writer & architect Thanasis Neofotistos was in the official selection of the Toronto International Film Festival, and after a long festival travel, it reached…
Film Review: I am Going Out For Cigarettes (2018), by Osman Cerfon
I am Going Out for Cigarettes by the French director Osman Cerfon boosts with originality, and it’s a film that has justifyingly been showered with awards since its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival in 2018
Open Call for Circle 2020
CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator announces the call for an exclusive one-year training program.
Film Review: I’ll End Up In Jail (2019), by Alexandre Dostie
You might think to know what an igloo is until you’ve seen the short psycho-thriller I’ll End Up In Jail by the Canadian director Alexandre Dostie, freshly screened at the Sundance Film Festival and currently showing in Clermont-Ferrand.
Film Review: Sadla (2019), by Zamo Mkhwanazi
That the oppressed can be oppressors in specific life situations is a reality illustrated in Zamo Mkhwanazi’s short film Sadla that was screened in the World Narrative Shorts Competition at the Sundance Film Festival
