Four women come from war-torn Mariupol. Svitlana Lishchynska the filmmaker is one of them; as such, the story is often told through her eyes. This makes the film auto-ethnographic in nature. To tell her story she mixes archive footage from the last few decades with more recent images after the Russian invasion. The other three […]
Life, love and the ups and downs of a long relationship are at the center of Two Strangers Trying Not to Kill Each Other. Directed by Jacob Perlmutter and Manon Ouimet, the film is named after Maggie and Joel, 75 and 84 years old respectively. Although they realize they are in the twilight of their
The Santa Cruz skating scene and the greater counterculture were bound to be co-opted by corporations, yet still it feels sad that there used to be times when you could alienate yourself from society by simply hanging out with other kids who don’t fit in. Capitalism has a way of eventually swallowing everything, but we
This will be a pretty short review. The newest film from independent filmmaker Mickey Keating is only 70 minutes long and doesn’t have much plot to speak of. On the other hand, it’s more about a situation. INVADER is currently playing a limited engagement at several Alamo Drafthouse Cinemas before wider release later this year.
Beaujon public hospital situated at Clichy in the Parisian suburbs is one of the many casualties of French healthcare budget cuts and that was before this year’s announcement of new slashes. The facility has just one psychiatrist on staff: a specialist who treats patients admitted for other reasons (often trauma, sometimes suicide attempts). This doctor
Eye Level War is generally established at the step of everyday life, a hopeless existence for Ukraine. ‘Eddy’s War’ does not appear to be miserable from now on. Still, the viewer knows what lies behind destroyed houses and clouds of smoke in the sky, because this viewer is aware of current events. We meet a
The Owl example shows that film-making is not only time-consuming but also complex. This pet project took six years to create and was funded by donations towards the end of its production. Julian Pham, the movie’s writer, director and cinematographer who also dances wrote on his crowdfunding page for the debut feature on Indiegogo: “We
In this pleasant, family-friendly comedy set in South Africa, the one-liner “Where is it lekker?” becomes a catchphrase of sorts that reminds us that local is indeed “lekker”. Frankie en Felipé follows the story of two once inseparable half-brothers who are torn apart when Frankie (Brendan Olivier) is taken to a home for lost boys.
For their fantastic 2020 documentary The Truffle Hunters, Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw embedded themselves in the forested hills of Piedmont to chronicle the dying way of life of a few Italian villagers and their dogs who hunt for pungent fungi coveted by the world’s top restaurants. Their new feature-length vérité film, Gaucho Gaucho, takes
LISBON, April 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ On this day, the 19th of April commemorates the beginning of a massacre that lasted three days and took away around three thousand Jewish lives in Lisbon. The pyres burned higher than the rooftops, in a city filled with quartered bodies and heads on spear points paraded through its streets.
