Dir: Emanuel Hoss-Desmarais Whitewash is a cold thriller with dark comedy edge set in the snow filled forests of Northern Quebec. Thomas Haden Church does a great job in his portrayal of Bruce, a broken […]
Film review
Dir. Matias Penachino With an observational documentary style, Summun Bonum opens with a family watching old video footage of when the parents adopted children from a foreign country. Straight away the mother’s natural son asks […]
Catalan director Sergio Caballero’s surrealist crime caper The Distance (La Distancia) is unapologetically left of field. In fact the film, an atmospheric heist movie with a healthy hint of Tarkovsky’s Stalker (and follow-up to 2010’s […]
Original title: “La Historia Oficial” Set in the final years of the last military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983), The Official Story is unafraid of exploring the pain that this period brought to the country. It […]
Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. The beginning of Leo Tolstoy’s novel “Anna Karenina†could well be the introduction to the 2001 Argentinian movie “The Swampâ€, directed […]
Dir: Boris Malagurski By Charlie Roberson  The Weight of Chains is a 2010 documentary from Serbian national Boris Malagurski examining the break-up of Yugoslavia and the bloody conflicts that came with it. It uses […]