By Hannah Drennan Directed by Barmak Akram It’s certainly surprising when we hear the protagonist – a young Afghan girl – ask her mother “what shall I wear?” and perhaps even more unexpected is her mother’s […]
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Director: by Yee Chih-yen The first feature-length release from director Yee Chih-yen since 2002’s acclaimed Blue Gate Crossing, the award-winning Salute! Sun Yat-Sen (aka Meeting Dr. Sun) is proof that a film which is light in its drama […]
Directed by James Cullen Bressack Pernicious, the devilish new horror film from James Cullen Bressack, is a picture that looks to have been built from the visuals up, making it first and foremost a rush […]
By Jamieson Pearce Directed by Andrey Zvyaginstev You hear the crow before you see it. Bare tree branches criss-cross the foreground. The crow’s dry moan rings out. It feels cold. The frame does not move, but very slowly, […]
Directed by Jia Zhangke Of all the politically-minded directors of the last two decades, few have had their filmmaking style so innately ingrained in their ideology as the respected Jia Zhangke. I’d say he practices […]
Director: Lucky Kuswandi As the title would suggest, In the Absence of the Sun, the humorous and poignant new drama from Indonesian writer-director Lucky Kuswandi, takes place mostly at night (one single night, in fact). However, […]