Faraz Shariat’s Prosecution carefully examines justice both within and without the complex, biased machinery of the German state.
Prosecution Handsomely Builds Its Case
Festivals
Reviews and dispatches exploring the best new cinema premiering around the world.
Decay. Peak Perestroika.
The first film to tackle the Chernobyl disaster, Mykhailo Belikov’s Decay is a fascinating historical document and a gripping work of poetic disaster cinema.
The Wry Pleasures of Everything Else Is Noise
Nicolás Pereda’s minimalist chamberpiece Everything Else is Noise is at once a slyly pleasurable arthouse experience and a finely-attuned family comedy-drama.
Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest. Unmoored Between Tradition and Liberation.
Naval-gazing documentary Two Mountains Weighing Down My Chest is a funny, lacerating look at being caught between two very different cultures.
Iván & Hadoum. Love on The Periphery.
Set in Almería, Panorama entry Iván & Hadoum shows the difficulties of love blooming in the hard ground of labour exploitation.
Home Can’t Find Where the Art Is
The well-meaning Yugo-Danish drama Home offers a nuanced portrait of migration and integration, but never really takes off dramatically.
Freeze Frames
A broken fridge-freezer becomes a metaphor for the breakdown of a family — and perhaps society itself — in uneven comedy Complaint No. 713317.
Why Do I See Hybrids In Everything?
Why Do I See You in Everything? surveys the notion of home amid living in exile, but feels unfocussed while tending towards the tedious.
White Lies. Painful Truths.
Bright Future entry White Lies is a remarkable non-fiction debut about the lingering effects of living in a cult upon an ordinary Italian family.
Mickey & Richard. The Person Behind the Porn Performer.
Richard Bernstein and his alter porn ego Mickey Squires are explored in loving detail in Rotterdam documentary Mickey & Richard.