Will My Parents Come to See Me Performative Indifference review by Matthew Chan review by Matthew Chan For many modern cinephiles there is almost an automatic sense of caution when viewing a work revolving around a contentious real world …
The Trees All-transcending vocation review by Bo Alfaro Decreton Bashir, a Lebanese plant scientist, is called home for the funeral of his father. The restraining nature of social compliance does not …
Exalted Mars When light touches skin review by Niv Fux During the 1920s, a sub-genre defined as 'city symphony films' was emerging: Avant-garde films without dialogue, characters, or a …
Sierra Racing with love review by Savina Petkova In ‘Sierra’, the newest short by Estonian filmmaker Sander Joon, there are three topoi : a greenhouse which is the mother’s domain, the fathe …
Faking The Truth A LOOK AT THE OEUVRE OF AUSTRIAN FILMMAKER CHRISTOPH SCHWARZ interview by Susanne Gottlieb interview by Susanne Gottlieb Austrian filmmaker Christoph Schwarz knows how to unravel pointed observations of life and society by playing ironically with elements of …
A Rotating Search for a State … A talk with filmmaker Taymour Boulos about anxiety, laundromats … interview by Bo Alfaro Decreton There’s this thing about laundromats. They are both uninviting and attractive. Perhaps because time feels to have taken a halt there and n …
“I wanted the film to be a kind o … — Marta Pajek interview by Mariana Hristova On the occasion of the screening of ‘Impossible Figures and other stories I’ at this year’s Glasgow Short Film Festival , but also to mark the w …
"Life is so much more … — Dania Bdeir interview by Niv Fux With Tampere Film Festival taking place last week, we had the opportunity to talk to Lebanese-Canadian writer and director Dania Bdeir, who …
