Unidentified Nonflying Objects is another freewheeling and deeply weird animated gem from the mind of Russian animator Sasha Svirsky.
The Beautifully Barmy Unidentified Nonflying Objects (UNO)
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A Few Small Beers
Hong Sangsoo’s latest film, The Day She Returns, is even more minimalist than usual, using just a handful of scenes to create a spare poem of differences.
A Russian Winter’s Lost Generation
Patric Chiha’s A Russian Winter is a minor work, but a nonetheless rewarding one: capturing exiled Russian youth in a tragic holding pattern.
I Want To See You Truly Naked
Muriel d’Ansembourg’s taboo-breaking drama explores the way pornography can change who we are, in often finger-wagging ways.
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.
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.
“The whole film had to be a meeting place for deaf and hearing audiences” — Eva Libertad on her debut feature Deaf
Eva Libertad explains being inspired by her deaf sister and bridging hearing and non-hearing worlds for her powerful Panorama breakout Deaf.
Dreams (Sex Love). Writing vs. Living
An unrequited love story powers Dreams, the final installment in Dag Johan Haugerud’s powerful Sex Love trilogy, playing in Competition.
He Just Felt Like Doing It
What Does that Nature Say to You, the latest film from Hong Sangsoo, is another poetic slice of life gem about what constitutes a good life.
Eel Lives Between Dreams and Shadows
The dreamlike Eel is a promising debut from Taiwanese director Chu Chun-Teng that thrives within liminal spaces — live from Perspectives.