Director: Naziha Arebi In Naziha Arebi’s Freedom Fields, the passage of time is marked by the number of years that have elapsed since the Libyan revolution. Over the course of half a decade, the documentary […]
Reviews
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 […]
Director: Richard Squires Filtering the turbulent life of comedian and voice actor Paul Lynde through the zany tropes of his art, Richard Squires’ Doozy is a work of deceptively kitschy surfaces. Like a muffled cry for […]
Director: Penny Lane IFFR 2019 review Penny Lane’s Hail Satan? is a surprisingly uplifting demystification of an organisation that possibly relies on being misunderstood. Though the sinister public image of The Satanic Temple is immediately taken […]
Director: Jia Zhangke IFFR 2019 review 2015’s Mountains May Depart was a fine work by the standards of any filmmaker, but while the decades-spanning melodrama marked another step forward in narrative and technical ambition for Jia Zhangke, it […]
Director: Rosanne Pel By the very nature of its grim central incident, Light as Feathers leaves itself wide open to accusations of exploitation. But while the feature debut of Rosanne Pel is ‘shocking’ in the same […]