Athens International Film Festival: ‘10,000km’ Review
byWhen life writes you a scenario expecting failure, all you can do is try your best, maintain your sense of humor, and make a…
Festivals
Documentary Thriller ‘The Green Prince’ Tells the True Story of a Hamas Son Recruited by Israel
byWith the risk of slipping into propaganda territory, Nadav Schirman manages to stay clear and objectively tell a very subjective story of conflict and…
Cannes Recap: Xavier Dolan’s ‘Mommy’ Underwhelms
byIt’s at once understandable and baffling that Jane Campion’s jury awarded Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan’s 5th feature “Mommy” the coveted Jury Prize in Cannes…
Soundless Dialogues and Loud Cinematic Statements of Ukrainian Drama ‘The Tribe’
byI previously reported on The Voice of the Voiceless, and now here I go again down the silent rabbit hole of Deaf Mute Central,…
TIFF Round-Up - Films Plucked from the Field of Nightmares
byIt’s all over, bar the shouting! Now that another TIFF edition has wrapped up in Cluj, I have to say… I see what programmer Mihai Chirilov…
‘Apflickorna’: Coming-Of-Age Through The Prism Of Power
byInternational Queer Film Festival has just finished in Berlin. This year the four day event showed short films from Scandinavia, Germany and many more…
Festival Diary: First Taste of TIFF’s Lucky 13 Edition
byTo be clear, the TIFF I’ll be covering here is the one whose poster child is Dracula, not the Maple Leaf. And if The…
Day 2 at TIFF - Packed Theaters And Runny Make-Up
byThe second full day of movies at the Transylvania Film Festival got underway at the crack of… well, noon for me, with a flick…
Ceylan, Cronenberg And Odorama: A First Timer’s Guide To Cannes
byThere is an odd psychosomatic disorder known as Paris syndrome which is said to affect Japanese tourists upon their first visit to the French…