Director: Sonia Kronlund London Film Festival review Afghan actor/director Salim Shaheen is the kind of magnetic figure who’s funny, charismatic and strange enough to carry a whole documentary on the strength of his personality. Of […]
Author: David Pountain
Watch Jagat on FilmDoo Shanjhey Kumar Perumal’s Jagat captures Malaysia’s Tamil community in a critical period of transition. Through the eyes of Appoy, the creative pre-teen child of an immigrant family, we see how social and economic factors […]
Director: Hong Sang-soo London Film Festival review The shadow of scandal hangs over Hong Sang-soo’s slippery and self-deprecating On the Beach at Night Alone, a despondent though characteristically playful variant on the director’s long-established formula […]
Director: Yusaku Matsumoto Raindance Film Festival review The one-word title of Yusaku Matsumoto’s Noise refers not to one thing but to the sum total of many things. It is the ‘noise’ of an era of cynical […]
Director: Jung Byung-gil London Korean Film Festival teaser screening review You’d be hard-pressed to find a more virtuosic fight scene in recent years than the brutal opening of Jung Byung-gil’s The Villainess. An exhilarating and darkly […]
Director: Daisy Asquith Sensitive, cheeky and enriched with a healthy shot of self-awareness, Daisy Asquith’s kaleidoscopic Queerama is as much a reflection on the shifting status of LGBTQ people within the UK pop culture landscape […]