By David Pountain Josh Kim’s short documentary, Draft Day, takes a brief snippet of LGBT life in Thailand to reveal the larger society at a curious juncture characterised by the shifting attitudes of the 2010s. […]
Month: January 2016
By Amy Dunning Directed by MÃ¥ns MÃ¥nsson Gothenburg Film Festival review This film adaptation of Kristian Lundberg’s influential novel, is a semi-autobiographical tale of social immobility and the anguish that it can cause. The story follows an unnamed […]
By David Pountain Anette Belley’s understated short La Traverse is that rare coming-of-age film to respect the nuances and gradualism of the coming-of-age process. Set across a few hours in a single day, the French-Canadian picture […]
By David Pountain Directed by Ming Jin Woo International Film Festival Rotterdam review From its pensive opening minutes to its quiet revelation of a conclusion, the present day Malaysia of Ming Jin Woo’s The Second Life of Thieves […]
By David Pountain An intricate and attentive paralleling of two ostensibly disparate worlds, Florin Serban’s Romanian drama Box is a work of unusual precision and refreshing originality. Tracking the day-to-day lives of a young boxer and a married older […]
By Amy Dunning Directed by July Jung Beautifully filmed in rural South Korea, A Girl at My Door follows policewoman Young-Nam as she is relocated to a small fishing village and becomes intertwined with a young girl […]