The paradoxes at the heart of the Romanian Orthodox Church are teasingly explored in Alexandru Solomon’s latest hybrid documentary — live from KVIFF.
Unexplainable Orthodoxies in Arsenie. An Amazing Afterlife.
Category: Festivals
Reviews and dispatches exploring the best new cinema premiering around the world.
Underseen Festival Favourites 2023
Taking stock of all the excellent films that have played at festivals in 2023 that you most probably haven’t heard of yet. From Cannes, Berlinale, and more.
Transylvania International Film Festival Day Four: No Bad Scenes, No Good Scenes
A film that uses every scene to tell a story and a film that uses every scene to bore the viewer to tears. A tale of contrasts, live from TIFF!
Transylvania International Film Festival Day Three: Slănină and Sinking Time
Both tasty cured pork fat, generous, curious documentaries and a moment of pure cinema magic, made for a good day at Translyvania International Film Festival.
Transylvania International Film Festival Day Two: Lángos, Loneliness, Landfills
The food in Translyvania has been uniformly excellent. The films at TIFF, spanning Austria, Greece and Nicaragua, have yet to match its quality.
Transylvania International Film Festival Day One: Nord-Rhein-Transylvania
I spent all day travelling to Romania — but somehow my first day at Transylvania International Film Festival turned out to be all about Nord-Rhein-Westphalia.
In Our Day Find Profundity in the Very Smallest of Things
Hong Sangsoo returns with In Our Day, a delightful tale that reminds us that contentment can be found in a drink of soju or a puff on a cigarette.
All To Play For. Not Enough to Stay For.
All To Play asks if love is enough to keep a family together in this safe, carefully modulated social realist French drama starring Virginie Efira.
A Song Sung Blue Is Not The Warmest Colour
A Song Sung Blue has every shade of blue you can hope for. But perhaps gorgeous aesthetics can only get you so far. Playing at Directors’ Fortnight.
“We are not used to seeing these kinds of bodies” — Elene Naveriani on Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry
Elene Naveriani shares casting Eka Chavleishvili, portraying older bodies, and casting a critical eye over rural Georgia in Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry.