Alba
Family relationships, illnesses, the pain of adolescence and the dynamics of bullying are laid bare in ALBA.
Category Archives: Festival Coverage
Camera Catalonia: Ramon Lamarca
Toby Miller caught up with Cambridge Film Festival programmer Ramon Lamarca to talk about cameras, Catalonia and the care-free nature of Catalonian society.
One of us
Far from being preachy, ONE OF US allows its message to settle into the reader with such a subtlety it kills, writes Garry Pope.
Tomorrow
Directed by Cyril Dion and INGLOURIOUS BASTERDS star Mèlanie Laurent, the winner of 2016 Cèsar award for Best Documentary Film is a more hopeful documentary, one in which the filmmakers examine solutions, rather than problems.
Ukranian Sheriffs
When a small southern Ukrainian village is 20 kilometres from the nearest police intervention, ‘who you gonna call?’… The Ukrainian Sheriffs. In the village of Stara Zburjivka, two deputised sheriffs are instated to watch over the land and mediate any problems the village people may come upon. Filmed as a factual documentary in a style … Continue reading Ukranian Sheriffs
SHORT FUSION: Confection Interview
Day Moibi sat down with Ed Rigg to discuss his latest short film, Confection.
Cloudy Sunday
Cloudy Sunday is a graceful, thought-provoking drama from Greek director Manousos Manousakis.
Olympic Pride, American Prejudice
This documentary is conventionally put together, but the story it tells is devastating in its impact.
Illegitimate
Most families have their fair share of tantrums. Few are likely to compare to the dysfunctional dynamics erupting in ILLEGITIMATE. The household horrors in this Romanian drama are grisly and unlikely to be ones you would want to witness alongside your mother, father or siblings. In exploding the niggling frustrations we usually repress in our … Continue reading Illegitimate
Inversion
Behnam Behazadi’s subtly powerful Iranian drama ponders the nature of freedom in a closed society that is being choked in more ways than one.