Parisienne
PARISIENNE’s greatest asset is a strong sympathetic central performance from Manal Issa as an 18 year old Lebanese woman in a foreign land.
Category Archives: Festival Coverage
Land of Mine
Even if you think you know what is coming next, you can’t look away from LAND OF MINE for even a second, writes Noel Megahey.
WOW Film Festival
The big theme for this year’s WOW Film Festival was ‘F-rated’: films centred around women, either made by female directors, or films about women.
Watersprite: Relationships
Garry Pope reviews three brilliant short films in the “Relationships” series, from three confident filmmakers at Watersprite this year.
Watersprite: Emotions
Copulating dogs, explicit sex talk and full-frontal puppet nudity: Stephen Watson reviews the “Emotions” strand of shorts at Watersprite 2016.
Watersprite: Quests
The “Quests” collection at Watersprite is made up of four different short films, all about characters on journeys, writes Garry Pope.
Watersprite: Self-Questioning
Garry Pope reviews “Self-Questioning”, a set of short films from three frighteningly talented directors, at the 2016 Watersprite Festival.
Interview with Ed Talfan
We spoke to Ed “Hinterland” Talfan about his supernatural melodrama THE PASSING, which premieres on 10 March at Wales One World Film Festival.
The End
If Depardieu goes down to the woods today… Fearless filmmaker Guillaume Nicloux premiers THE END at this year’s Berlinale.
Hail, Caesar!
With HAIL, CAESAR! the Coen Brothers have managed to produce their funniest film to date, writes Jack Toye at the Berlinale Festival.