Fernanda Tovar’s Sad Girlz is a touching tale of female friendship under the shadow of sexual violence — the winner of Berlinale Generation 14Plus.
Sad Girlz Does It Well
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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.
Love is Art in Tell Me What You Feel
Despite, or perhaps because of, its cringe characters, Tell Me What You Feel is a heartfelt exploration of whether art and love can really understand trauma.
Cult Classic Twin Cheeks: Who Killed The Homecoming King? Finally Reemerges From Its Camcorder Swamp
Kelly Hughes’ long-unavailable and unique queer outsider artwork Twin Cheeks: Who Killed the Homecoming King? finally makes its way back into the public eye.
18 Holes to Paradise Keeps Things Under Par
The absurdities of the privileged in the face of incoming disaster is smartly dissected in João Nuno Pinto’s Tallinn entry 18 Holes to Paradise.
A Diamond on The Hudson
Craig Brewer’s Song Song Blue is a surprisingly powerful musical biopic that rests upon the remarkable easygoing charm of Kate Hudson.