Director: Michael Onder Tokyo International Film Festival review With a title referencing Texas hold’em, a game of probability and psychology, Turkish director Michael Onder’s debut Taksim Hold’em incorporates the game literally and symbolically into a dark […]
Based on horrific true events that unfolded between the Filipino military and the locals in rural Mindanao, The Right to Kill offers an intense and mournful depiction of a family whose peaceful lives are tragically […]
Latin America’s most acclaimed rapper, René Pérez Joglar, aka. Residente, turns his hand to filmmaking in this epic journey through his heritage. After taking a DNA test, he determines to travel to each country from […]
Though sex on screen has been an existent phenomenon for almost as long as the various mediums that have enabled it, pornography’s place in society remains one of continuous transformation in line with shifting cultural trends […]
A twisted highlight from this year’s Tokyo International Film Festival, Govinda Van Maele’s Gutland is a mind-bending and effectively constructed slow-burner of a film that sees German criminal Jens take refuge in a small Luxembourgish village. Jens’ self-preserving […]
There’s no denying that the international box office is dominated by a small group of countries. But there are many film industries that have found success regionally, internationally, and on the festival circuit, that rarely […]
