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 […]
Author: Stephanie Hotz
Director: Rooth Tang Director Rooth Tang beautifully and heartbreakingly exposes the struggles of love, family, and immigration in his 2014 feature Sway. Set in Paris, Bangkok, and Los Angeles, the film’s three alternating love stories […]
By Stephanie Hotz The Häns team, consisting of Enric Ribes and Oriol Martínez, describe themselves as “odd storytellers”, and Xiong Di and Daydreaming, two of their recent documentary pieces, are both shorts that recount the lives of people […]
By Stephanie Hotz Directed by Lusine Sargsyan Lusine Sargsyan’s 2014 feature film, The Abode, is a bittersweet drama reflecting the personal experiences felt by Armenians during and after the Artsakh Liberation War (1988-1994). Despite spanning various […]
Directed by Tomasz Mielnik Karlovy Vary International Film Festival review “We live in an age of pictorial depiction. Folk cannot express themselves anymore, the consequence of our pace of life.” – Journey to Rome Polish filmmaker […]