Director: Pailin Wedel London Film Festival 2019 review Hope Frozen is a documentary defined by various forms of preservation. On the most explicit level, Pailin Wedel’s tender film tells the story of two-year-old Einz Naovaratpong, […]
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Director: Kim Tae-yong London Korean Film Festival teaser screening review Youth and tradition inadvertently collide for a vibrant celebration of life, art, and culture in the boldly eccentric new feature from director Kim Tae-yong. Though […]
As the success of Oscar-winning works like Moonlight and Call Me by Your Name will attest, filmgoers around the world are becoming increasingly acceptant that there’s a place for queer cinema within the mainstream. But […]
Director: Kim Yoon-seok Fantasia International Film Festival 2019 review True to its title, Kim Yoon-seok’s Another Child sees the sudden birth of an unplanned baby whose place in the world feels uncertain and ill-defined. And […]
Director: Ken Ninomiya Fantasia International Film Festival 2019 review From its hyper-saturated colour scheme to its EDM-fuelled montages, Chiwawa owes a clear debt to 2012’s Spring Breakers – one that director Ken Ninomiya seems to openly […]
Director: Ren Wen Sci-Fi-London Film Festival 2019 review Apocalyptic dread and societal turmoil take a backseat to cosmic wonder and millennial drama in Last Sunrise, a wistful and absurdity-tinged sci-fi that observes the end of the […]