By Leni De Castro After the Second Golden Age of Cinema in the Philippines waned down in the 1990s, the 2000s saw a new breed of auteurs climbing up from the underground. Brillante Mendoza belonged […]
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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 David Pountain As his body of work will attest, Portuguese director José Pedro Lopes has a clear penchant for the macabre, often presenting grimly comic scenarios which see the crueller and more reckless sides […]
By Pirjo Leek Alrik Bursell’s short sci-fi film Strange Thing is a story of how a lazy breakfast at home turns into a spine-tingling rollercoaster ride. Mixing the familiar and domestic with the strange and unexpected, […]
Out of all the weird and bloody eccentrics to work in the ‘extreme’ end of Asian cinema in recent decades, arguably none has more consistently staked a claim to the title of ‘auteur’ than 54-year-old […]
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 […]