By Sharon Calingasan Animated short Please, Call Back Later is a charming piece of work by animator, illustrator and filmmaker Yulia Ruditskaya that follows a girl who escapes from her usual routines and goes on an […]
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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 Owen Peters Directed by Mani Haghighi Berlinale review Not so much a warning, more a piece of friendly advice – before settling down to watch Mani Haghighi’s entertaining and original film A Dragon Arrives!, complete […]
By Lauren Hurrell Directed by Udi Aloni Berlinale review “Humus, salad, fries on the side… You like to eat at our restaurants… But when you see too many of us… Coexistence turns into a demographic threat.†Junction […]
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 Lauren Hurrell Directed by Takeshi Kitano One of the director’s only films in which he does not make an acting appearance himself, Dolls is a highly stylised Japanese art film that is written, produced […]