By Alice Pickard Director: Tamar Van Den Dop Watch Supernova on FilmDoo “There’s a lot of nothing before you reach the next bit of something”. Nothing. Nothing surrounds the house. Nothing ever happens. Nothing apart from […]
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By Laura Oliveira Karlovy Vary International Film Festival review Director: Attila Till Drama, action, intensity, humor, family and relationship struggles, disability grief and a twist ending all wrapped into one is Kills on Wheels in a nutshell. With […]
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 […]
By David Pountain Polish director Tomasz Mielnik packs more ideas and memorable set pieces into his debut feature, Journey to Rome, than many directors manage across entire careers. While the loosely structured Czech comedy starts […]
By Sarah Jilani Directed by Doris Dörrie Berlinale review It’s been five years since the inhabitants of the Japanese town of Fukushima and its surrounds suffered a triple catastrophe. Europe looked on, shocked and unnerved in […]
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 […]