Director: Jung Byung-gil London Korean Film Festival teaser screening review You’d be hard-pressed to find a more virtuosic fight scene in recent years than the brutal opening of Jung Byung-gil’s The Villainess. An exhilarating and darkly […]
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Director: Daisy Asquith Sensitive, cheeky and enriched with a healthy shot of self-awareness, Daisy Asquith’s kaleidoscopic Queerama is as much a reflection on the shifting status of LGBTQ people within the UK pop culture landscape […]
Director: Alexander Kott Watch Test on FilmDoo Alexander Kott’s wordless Test may technically be a period film – inspired by the Soviet Union’s nuclear bomb testing in the Kazakh region of Semipalatinsk in 1949 – but its […]
Director: Vladimir Beck Watch Little Bird on FilmDoo The sometimes blurry line between the barely-teens and almost-adults of Little Bird, the mesmerising new feature from Vladimir Beck, is established in the film’s first two minutes via two […]
Director: Wiktor Ericsson Through its opening sequence, Wiktor Ericsson’s Strawberry Days (Jordgubbslandet) sets the tone for its steady-paced narrative with long shots of empty and tranquil farmland during the early hours of the morning. This sequence […]
Directors: Sivaroj Kongsakul, Shijie Tan and Xin Yukun Watch Distance on FilmDoo For the most part, film titles act as a calculated lure, first and foremost to sell a film, and second to vaguely describe it. However, in […]