Review: The Diver (2019), by Jamie Helmer & Michael Leonard
The main character of Jamie Helmer’s & Michael Leonard’s film The Diver, Callan (Nicholas Denton) isn’t someone you’d like to befriend and even less to have as an enemy.
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Review: Dogs Barking at Birds (2019), by Leonor Teles
The Portuguese director Leonor Teles is painting a wonderfully accomplished picture of Porto’s rapid urban change and its consequences through the eyes of the main protagonist Vicente Gil and his family.
Review: The Tears Thing (2019) by Clémence Poesy
“The Tears Thing” is a story sharp as a knife, or rather – painful as a bullet piercing human flash, and it was one of the contenders of the Orizzonti shorts competition at the Venice International Film festival.
Review: Austral Fever ( 2019) by Thomas Woodroffe
Visually inspired by the artwork of Woodroffe’s aunt Carmen Silva whose monochrome paintings were “violent, seductive, static, erotic and outrageous”, as the director describes them in his own words…
Eating out at the Cinemajové Film Festival, Valencia
It’s safe to say, you will never truly understand the meaning of “manana” before hitting Valencia, the Spanish queen of laissez-vivre. On my first ever trip to this beautiful city that buzzes with life long after the hours officially recognized as “the time to go to bed to re-thank the energy for the next working […]
Interview: Corina Schwingruber Ilić, director of “All Inclusive”
Freshly crownd as the best film in the shorts competition of the IceDocs, Corina Schwingruber Ilić’s „All Inclusive“ continues on its path of sucess, having already bagged the Golden Dove at the Dok Leipzig, Best Live Action Film at PÖFF Shorts, Best Short Film at Kustendorf Film & Music Festival, Best Documentary at Tampere and […]
Review: “All Inclusive”, the winner of the IceDocs Short Film Competition
All Inclusive is a powerful study of modern society’s insatiable consumerism, both as a humorous take on human nature and a bitter picture of our care-free, liberal capitalist thinking.
Interview: Ingibjörg Halldórsdóttir, IceDocs
The first edition of the Iceland Documentary Film Festival – IceDocs in Akranes has just wrapped in, and it turned to be a very special experience with a meticulously programmed competitions and sidebars, while at the same time being well organized and intimate. It is truly one of the best film festival experiences that all […]
Review: Meyrem (2017), by Reber Dosky
One of excellent proofs that a documentary doesn’t have to stretch over 90+ minutes to offer a well-rounded story is Meyrem by Reber Dosky, a film about the female commander of almost all-female Kurdish combatants in the region of Rojava, Syria’s West Kurdistan.
