By David Pountain Tying the past to the present and finding absurdity in reality, Lusine Sargsyan’s The Abode sympathetically observes the humour, loneliness, perseverance and solidarity of the Armenian people during and after the Artsakh […]
Author: David Pountain
By David Pountain Panos Koutras’ Xenia is a funny, organically composed and affecting drama that succeeds on levels both personal and national. Telling the story of two young half-Albanian brothers, Danny (Kostas Nikouli) and Ody […]
By David Pountain Directed by Jonathan Yi and Michael Haertlein Transcending the limitations of the well-worn rockumentary genre, Jonathan Yi and Michael Haertlein’s Mad Tiger draws you in with its promises of fun, episodic times with a […]
By David Pountain Yesterday’s Hong Kong Film Awards proved to be something of a culmination point for one of this past year’s biggest underdog stories of national cinema. Produced on a shoestring budget, the five-part […]
By David Pountain Sometimes a man can be so many things at once that it’s difficult to pin down just what he really is. It took eight years and a Golden Lion award for Takeshi […]
By David Pountain Set in an alternate reality where openly straight people are the target of stigma, Tyler Glodt’s short cheekily flips the script on heteronormativity with humorous and often surprisingly touching results. Following the […]