An Armenian animated documentary and a shape-shifting Ukrainian 90s-set film noir characterise a strong start to goEast Film Festival.
goEast Film Festival Day One: The Rise of the Hybrids
Category: Festivals
Reviews and dispatches exploring the best new cinema premiering around the world.
Past, Present and Future Collide at CPH:DOX 2023
Three Nordic features at CPH:DOX 2023 critique our impact on the environment, pointing to future ways of keeping harmony between the environment and man.
Repression, Obsession, Possession: BFI Flare 2023
BFI Flare 2023 has closeted writers, supernatural girls, coming-of-age teenagers and men on a dangerous mission. We take a brief look at queerness in all shapes and sizes.
Tracing the Echoes of the Berlinale Encounters Section
Transcendent reincarnation, familial reverberations and Hong’s most delicate film in years characterise an Encounters section echoing through space and time.
Christian Petzold Changes Pace with the Breezy Relationship Drama Afire
A perfect cast and a breezy tone, intermingling with moments of horror and danger, characterise Afire, a more low-key effort from Christian Petzold.
Limbo (Not that One or that One) Gives the Ossie Outback the Breaking Bad Treatment
This Australian desert noir is more interesting than its title, but would’ve worked a whole lot better as a TV series.
Bad Living and Living Bad at Berlinale 2023: Four Enigmatic Hours of Maternal Misery
Haughty mothers haunt a draughty hotel in João Canijo’s Bad Living and Living Bad, playing in both Competition and Encounters at the Berlinale 2023.
Berlinale 2023 Perspektive Deutsches Kino: German Soft Power
The explicitly German section of the Berlinale, Perspektive Deutsches Kino is a fascinating example of film festival soft power diplomacy.
Infinity Pool Gives you Everything but the Excrement
With Infinity Pool Brandon Cronenberg succeeds in turning lust and indulgence into a car crash of increasingly unnatural scenes we cannot look away from.
in water is Hong Sangsoo’s Best Film In Years
Hong Sangsoo innovates with new techniques to create his best film since On The Beach at Night Alone with In Water — a tremendous ode to the magic of art.