Bodkin Ras
Those who believe ours is more than a black and white world, and likewise in film genre, should watch this melted fiction and documentary with interest.
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Innocence of Memories
Watching Grant Gee’s feature documentary feels like daydreaming a collective past, a little blurred but utterly captivating, writes Sarah Acton.
The Passing
Sarah Acton offers a sneak preview of THE PASSING: a slow burning supernatural tale set in a remote Welsh mountain valley.
Operation Bethlehem
Bethlehem is divided, literally, by a giant illegal wall of concrete dividing Palestine and Israeli areas. Sarah Acton reviews Leila Sansour’s OPERATION BETHLEHEM.
Blackbird
BLACKBIRD is a beautiful drama about Scottish folk traditions and values, but a style over substance approach lets it down, writes Sarah Acton.
White Star
How will the squatter punk scene in Berlin sit alongside a clean-cut keyboard rockstar in a white suit pumping out synth-space-pop?
Dummy Jim
“You can’t plough a field by turning it over in your mind”. DUMMY JIM is inspired by Scottish author and long-distance cyclist, James Duthie.
Deadlock: The modern Western
Roland Klick’s acid western embraces and transcends the ‘Spaghetti’ sub-genre, writes Sarah Acton.
Time out of Joint – Roland Klick
“Roland Klick is driven by the same manic fire that is recognisable in the dancing eyes of Herzog and Jodorowsky”. Meet him at CFF on the 25 September.