By Benjamin Brown Directed by Tim Lienhard “To me, beauty is looks you can never forget. A face should jolt, not soothe.‖ John Waters One Zero One is a highly stylised and theatrically baroque hybrid […]
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By David Pountain Directed by Lucky Kuswandi As the title would suggest, In the Absence of the Sun, the humorous and poignant new drama from Indonesian writer-director Lucky Kuswandi, takes place mostly at night (one single […]
By Jake Bibby Dir: Rocio Caliri and Melina Marcow As debut features go, never before has a film posed so many questions yet offered so little answers. However, this is not a criticism of Announce […]
By Jake Bibby Dir: Kim Longinotto Prostitution, human trafficking, rape and drug addiction are never, and perhaps never will be, the easiest of topics on which to base a documentary. Yet, in Kim Longinotto’s Dreamcatcher, […]
By Jake Bibby Dir: Jovan B. Todorovic Jovan Todorovic’s quasi documentary, drama and Serbian historical film, The Belgrade Phantom, details the ten-day joyriding escapades of Vada Vasiljevic in 1970’s Belgrade. The exact date is 1979, […]
Dir: Carlos Agulló & Mandy Jacobsen By Jake Bibby Upon first watch, it is hard to say whether Carlos Angullo and Mandy Jacobsen’s documentary Plot for Peace is primarily concerned with its ebullient maverick in […]