By David Pountain Directed by Pepe Diokno At its heart, Pepe Diokno’s Above the Clouds is a single journey of thought expressed through a slow immersion into nature. Opening with the tragic death of the […]
Month: June 2016
By Leni De Castro Directed by Seth Grossman The Elephant King, written and directed by Seth Grossman, is about the struggle that we must all go through in life. It is the relentless striving to […]
By Leni De Castro Asian horror has become a genre all its own and Thailand has taken up cudgels as a driving force in the trend. Thai horror films have been recognised internationally for their […]
Nontawat Numbenchapol’s 2013 documentary Boundary may be a film that largely deals in calm surfaces, hypnotically long takes and the mundane moments of everyday rural life but its impact in the director’s home country nonetheless proved incendiary. […]
Even without its noteworthy status as the first outright thriller to come out of Laos, Anysay Keola’s At the Horizon would still be one of the more intriguing and entertaining genre films you could catch […]
Like many countries, Italy has a complex and long history of women’s struggles for equality. Certain rights, however, came much later than other Western societies, such as the laws legalizing divorce (1970) and for gender […]