Ion De Sosa’s dreamy follow-up to horror hit Mamántula is a disappointment, despite all those lovely 16mm images.
Balearic Can’t Find The Beat
Tag: Film Festival
With Hasan in Gaza. Palestinian (Non-)Existence
Kamal Aljafari’s urgent With Hasan in Gaza might be shot in the autumn of 2001, but its images speak firmly to the present onslaught by the Isreali regime.
Out Of Love. Elevated Social Realism.
While the story of Out of Love is nothing new, Nathan Ambriosioni’s carefully-measured style shows him off as a director of great techincal talent.
Ride or Die. Love, Fight, Cry.
A lesbian relationship is put to the ultimate test in Josalynn Smith’s debut feature, the tenderhearted and politically resonant road movie Ride or Die.
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.
The Boy with Pink Pants. Pain Without the Exploitation.
Pink clothes become a metaphor for difference in Margherita Ferri’s nuanced The Boy with Pink Pants, based on a devastating true story.
Radical Images: The New York Counter Film Festival
New York Counter Film Festival, created in opposition to NYFF’s Zionist ties, enjoyed its inaguaral, radical edition. We report from the frontline.
Chasing Pavements
Pavements is a biopic, musical and exhibition, with Alex Ross Perry applying the idiosyncratic spirit of the 90s band to novel forms of cinematic expression.
Art, Community and Accessibility on a Brazilian Tropical Island
In a cinema culture dominated by Hollywood, Festival de Vitória, now in its 31st year, puts a necessary spotlight on homegrown Brazilian film.
GAIFF Day One: Ararat to the West, Karabakh to the East
The story of Armenia’s complicated suffering is laid bare in two stylistically opposite yet thematically linked films. From Golden Apricot Film Festival.