Gritty, cynical and intensely gripping – Gjorce Stavreski delivers a powerful piece that rests on a son’s desperate devotion to battle his father’s illness that delves them both into the unforgiving underworld of Macedonia’s drug-trade. With his father losing the fight to terminal lung-cancer and with it, his hope and mind, Vele (Blagoj Veselinov) is … Continue reading Secret Ingredient
BEAUTIFUL BOY delivers enough tenderness to elicit emotion from its audience, but it’s a gradual release rather than a quick hit. Mark Liversidge reviews at London Film Festival.
In 1959 a young man by the name of Erik Jensen boarded an ocean liner bound for Sarawak on the tropical Island of Borneo. Little did he know he would spend the next seven years living and working with the indigenous Iban people, researching their language and culture. Simultaneously, the traditional way of life for … Continue reading Erik and the Iban
A touching and heartbreaking portrait of young love, cinematically earns the right to be watched. Jim Ross reviews ahead of Africa in Motion opening night.
Luka Vukos previews the opening night of the 2018 Edinburgh Short Film Festival – “a bloody good bunch of films”.
ROMA lives up to its festival buzz, with fantastic cinematography and an impeccable choices from Alfonso Cuaron. Yemi Chabi reviews.
Francesc, an unhappy 13 year-old boy living in Barcelona, is inadvertently introduced to the works of Albert Camus, whose existentialist ideas he finds unconvincing but intriguing. Arming himself with a new French name, Jean-François, the boy sets out for Paris to give the writer a piece of his mind — unaware that Camus has been … Continue reading Jean-François i el sentit de la vida
It’s not hard to see why Dimitri de Clercq’s first solo feature as a director (he previously shared co-credit with Alain Robbe-Grillet on THE BLUE VILLA in 1995) has become a film festival favourite, recently winning Best Picture at Bogota, Houston and Orlando and picking up nominations for its cinematography, score and two lead actors … Continue reading You Go To My Head
Two images recur in this documentary about the years following the end of General Franco’s brutal regime, and the struggle of victims’ relatives to get some sort of justice: a group of gaunt statues on a Spanish hillside representing those murdered (which immediately after being put up was riddled with bullets and thus ‘completed’ according … Continue reading The Silence Of Others
Illness spans all ages, as does the need to come to terms and live with the challenges it brings. Tom Martin’s KINETICS grants us a view of the emotional landscape of two people receiving different diagnoses, and how they become each other’s confidant. At the heart of this film is Rose, a drama teacher and … Continue reading Kinetics
