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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 …

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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 …

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