Found-footage documentary Manifesto is both a startling, necessary film but also a disturbing one, calling into question filmmaking ethics in a fascist state.
The Kids are Not Alright in Russian Found-Footage Doc Manifesto
Festivals
Reviews and dispatches exploring the best new cinema premiering around the world.
goEast Film Festival Day Three: Resilient Faces in Broken Places
A Kazakh Western, a Serbian mining town and a Russian village on the edge of war teach us about the importance of resilience on day three of goEast.
goEast Film Festival Day Two: Crossing Borders
A quick jaunt to Mainz starts a day filled with characters crossing borders, looking for common threads that unite humanity.
goEast Film Festival Day One: The Rise of the Hybrids
An Armenian animated documentary and a shape-shifting Ukrainian 90s-set film noir characterise a strong start to goEast Film Festival.
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.