At this year’s Cambridge Film Festival, the first session of a brief season of films by the pioneering American film-maker Lois Weber (1879–1939) comprised a ten-minute short, SUSPENSE, from 1913, and the 1916 ‘five-reeler’ SHOES (about an hour long). SUSPENSE adheres closely to a very well-known genre of the time: a wife (with baby, of … Continue reading Shoes
THE CHAOTIC LIFE OF NADA KADIĆ shows us that an autistic child is still a child, and that life is beautiful even if it is a little harder and more sacrifices have to be made.
SHORTS…TO ANIMATE is an innovative combination which will leave you stunned, writes Lydia Lowe at Cambridge Film Festival.
THE WALDHEIM WALTZ feels fresh and urgent all the way until the credits roll, writes Joseph McLauchlan at Cambridge Film Festival
THE WITCH HUNTERS is a charming and perceptive coming-of-age tale exploring a friendship, writes Gavin Midgley at Cambridge Film Festival
A colourful, exuberant musical that explodes with humour and sincerity, BEEN SO LONG encompasses the very soul of North London in a stunning, contemporary tale of love, loss and overcoming the past. On the estates of Camden, young mother Simone, played by the riveting Michaela Coel (Chewing Gum, Black Mirror), cares for her disabled daughter … Continue reading Been So Long
The entertaining SCIENCE FAIR does much to illuminate a wider message that should be heeded, writes Jim Ross
LEMONADE is a gritty and evocative story with subtle performances, Sarah Henkel reviews at Cambridge Film Festival.
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.
