Orlando: My Political Biography reframes Virginia Woolf’s seminal 1928 through the modern transgender experience. The result is a compelling act of imagination.
Travel into The Trans Imagination with Orlando: My Political Biography
Category: Festivals
Reviews and dispatches exploring the best new cinema premiering around the world.
Pixar Gets the Hungarian Arthouse Treatment in White Plastic Sky
A bleak, arthouse cinema take on the classic Pixar formula, this tale of humanity’s last gasp shows you don’t need hundreds of millions to make a great sci-fi.
Member BlackBerrys?
BlackBerry takes you back to the halcyon days before the iPhone became the ubiqutious smartphone in this entertaining rise-and-fall tech sotry.
She Came to Me. She Didn’t Conquer.
The Berlinale 2023 opens with a trip aboard the tugboat of love. There is no need to get on. Here’s our take on Rebecca Miller’s She Came To Me.
Descent Into Cinema Podcast: Passages and Queer Panorama Preview
Is Passages a great movie or is it a classic case of Sundance-itis? Ahead of its European premiere at the Berlinale, we look at Ira Sachs’ latest.
Rotterdam 2023: The Three Types of Festival Film
Hybrid docu-fiction, serious European relationship dramas, and a big cross-border social issue drama, characterise a classic Rotterdam 2023 line up.
Edvard Munch Everywhere. All At Once
This daring portrait of the vaunted modernist artist Munch captures the spirit of the artist well by shaking up biopic formula.
Poetry and Parenting: Two Lithuanian Films at the Tallinn Film Festival 2022
France to the west, Russia to the east; Lithuania trying to do its thing in the middle. A survey of two Baltic premieres at the Tallinn Film Festival.
Death and Divorce: Two First Features from Tallinn Film Festival 2022
A couple of excellent first features from the Tallinn Film Festival show both physical and mental pain, and the different ways to reconcile the two.
Cottbus Film Festival Day Two: Polentag
A Polish-heavy second day at Cottbus Film Festival shows off both the accessibility and social relevance of their national cinema.