By David Pountain Deconstructing gender roles against a backdrop of pervasive prejudice and legal persecution, Hassene Belaïd’s short drama N’sibi is a welcome anomaly of Algerian cinema that sees a revelatory meeting between the young […]
Author: David Pountain
Director: Palatpol Mingpornpichit Watch Fathers on FilmDoo Palatpol Mingpornpichit’s Fathers is a gentle drama of emotionally loaded issues, seemingly crafted under the notion that the best way to get your argument across is to say it with inviting clarity and warmth. […]
By David Pountain Watch Parts of the Heart on FilmDoo On record as a passionate proponent of low-budget cinema, American-Indonesian writer-director Paul Agusta’s last feature film was the decades-spanning Parts of the Heart, a coming-of-age drama that […]
Almost two decades since its initial theatrical run, Fruit Chan’s low-budget coming-of-ager Made in Hong Kong remains a volatile document of the cinematic and sociocultural identity of its titular metropolis in the pivotal year of 1997. Its loosely […]
Director: Seung-hwa Baek London Korean Film Festival teaser screening review The tension between a cutesy surface and a cruel reality is fundamental to the comedy of Seung-hwa Baek’s Queen of Walking, the colourful and eccentrically stylised […]
Interview translated by Kiradit Sachdev Watch The Ravine of Goodbye on FilmDoo In Tatsushi Ohmori’s The Ravine of Goodbye, two horrific incidents – one still in the headlines, and one from a distant past – serve as prismatic […]