From gangster flicks to animation, Japanese cinema has a remarkable track record for taking the genres most regularly (and often inaccurately) associated with inconsequential, youth-targeted escapism and channelling them into mesmerising works that can hold […]
Taiwanese director Wu Wuna is not one to shy away from laying her personal life bare in her work. Seeing as the death of her mother actually led her to discover documentary making, her filmmaking […]
By Gita Subaran Director: Andrew Steggall Watch on FilmDoo.com Departure is a film about drowning and having to hold one’s breath to survive. It is as much a story about Elliot, who holds back his […]
By Sharon Calingasan Director: Catherine Stewart Watch on FilmDoo.com Catherine Stewart’s While You Weren’t Looking is an interesting take on LGBT issues and the concerns surrounding these communities in a South African context, particularly in […]
Watch Safe Bet on FilmDoo.com From South Africa comes Safe Bet, a compelling and hilarious action-comedy that shows how the desire for money leads to adverse consequences with some comedic relief on the side for friends Frank […]
By Pirjo Leek Toronto Jewish Film Festival review Director: Péter Gárdos The bright side of life after Holocaust Fever at Dawn is first and foremost a love story. An ill Jewish man living in exile in […]
