Directors: Clara Laperrousaz and Laura Laperrousaz ArteKino Festival review A summer of blissful aimlessness is complicated by a tragedy from years prior in Clara and Laura Laperrousaz’s tender, quietly enveloping exploration of the many ways of […]
Female Directors
Director: Wang Wan-jo Tokyo International Film Festival review In Wang Wan-jo’s enlightening, if rather nichey tribute to the unsung heroes of sound and their deceptively unobtrusive artistry, we see that there is more than one way to be […]
Director: Akiko Ohku Tokyo International Film Festival review High school is the psychological monster that refuses to die. Whatever hang-ups, regrets and fixations you develop in this formative period will likely stay with you for […]
Director: Margarethe von Trotta Tokyo International Film Festival review Last time director Margarethe von Trotta collaborated with writer Pamela Katz, the result was Hannah Arendt, an intelligently engaging biopic about the controversial German-Jewish philosopher who […]
Federica Di Giacomo’s documentary Deliver Us (Liberami) explores the practice of exorcism within the Catholic church in Sicily. The prolific Father Cataldo is avidly sought after to perform these rituals of demonic expulsion and the film […]
Director: Sonia Kronlund London Film Festival review Afghan actor/director Salim Shaheen is the kind of magnetic figure who’s funny, charismatic and strange enough to carry a whole documentary on the strength of his personality. Of […]