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 […]
LGBT films
By Elizabeth Sandell Directed by Ethan Reid Director Ethan Reid begins Peter de Rome: Grandfather of Gay Porn in Sandwich, Kent, where his now elderly and retired subject spends each summer. In this small, historic parish […]
By David Pountain Directed by Sudhanshu Saria The opening minutes of Loev, the promising debut feature from India’s Sudhanshu Saria, establishes the film’s world and the audience’s positioning within it like a jigsaw puzzle being systematically assembled […]
By David Pountain Tim Marshall’s gorilla is an open and entrancing short that itself inspires an openness to the universe at large. Beginning part of the way into a couple’s camping trip and climaxing with a […]
By Owen Peters Directed by Michael Winterbottom There is something satisfying to being the first: The band you rated when everyone said they were crap, the company shares bought that market investors said leave well alone or […]
By Alana Jeffery Directed by Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas Sand Dollars is a delicate and heartbreaking portrayal of a relationship between two women that defies our judgements and is a testament to the fact […]