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 […]
Japan
By Sarah Jilani Directed by Doris Dörrie Berlinale review It’s been five years since the inhabitants of the Japanese town of Fukushima and its surrounds suffered a triple catastrophe. Europe looked on, shocked and unnerved in […]
By David Pountain From the strained central relationship of twin drama Give Me Your Hand to the outlandish personal journey of short film Hollywood by Accident (aka Hollywood malgré lui), French director Pascal-Alex Vincent has made […]
By Delphine Riffaud In May this year, during Cannes, FilmDoo announced the winners of the FilmDoo Poster Competition – supported by global tech leading brands (Adobe, Scan, Nvidia), UK distributors (Third Window, Terracotta, Picturehouse, Peccadillo, […]
By David Pountain Directed by Koji Fukada Any discussion of Koji Fukada’s affecting new drama, Au revoir l’été, will inevitably involve a comparison to the late great Eric Rohmer. Shadows of the French director’s 1983 […]
(Jury Prize, Festival de Cannes 2013) Dir: Hirokazu Koreeda By Lina Rhrissi Imagine you discover that you have been switched at birth and that your parents are not your real ones. Would you look more […]