Despite the powerful idea at its core, the fundamental premise of Dandelion’s Odyssey makes it extremely hard to identify with its characters.
Dandelion’s Odyssey Equates the Cosmos with a Single Flower

Exploring the Outer Edge of Film
Despite the powerful idea at its core, the fundamental premise of Dandelion’s Odyssey makes it extremely hard to identify with its characters.
A messy weekend following a life-changing diagnosis characterises Pauline Loquès’ Nino, a touching drama about trying to pull yourself together.
The pitfalls of lesbian parenting as well as the messy realities of modern-day relationships are expertly navigated in Critics’ Week film Love Letters.
Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke’s debut feature A Useful Ghost is a remarkably profound — and silly — reverie on love, loss and assimilation.
BDSM and domination is used as a metaphor for the human condition in Alexe Poukine’s Kika, a deeply heartfelt tale about overcoming grief.
Marcelo Caetano’s Baby might combine reliable and clichéd tropes, but Caetano’s sex work study succeeds thanks to its keen observation of queer communities.
With alacrity and charm, Daphné Hérétakis’ short What we ask of a statue is that it doesn’t move takes aim at one of Greece’s most enduring national symbols.
Antoine Chevrollier’s Block Pass captures its working-class milieu well but suffers due to its tired secondhand framing of queer suffering.
Sauna Day, Anna Hints follow-up to Smoke Sauna Sisterhood, trades female intimacy for male suppression, to eroticised and compelling results.
The twin spectres of China and capitalism haunt every frame of KEFF’s gangland debut Locust, with shades of Edward Yang’s A Brighter Summer Day.