By Jessica Duncanson Director: Mark Wilshin East End Film Festival 2017 review This intimate first feature by director Mark Wilshin presents two men at very different but equally crucial stages in their lives. Michael is […]
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By Jessica Duncanson Director: Aki Kaurismäki LOCO Film Festival 2017 review Aki Kaurismäki’s The Other Side of Hope follows Syrian asylum-seeker Khaled (Sherwan Haji), who arrives in Finland after stowing away on a coal ship. […]
By Jessica Duncanson Director: Ju Anqi Chinese Visual Festival 2017 review A film that seems to depict everything and nothing, Ju Anqi’s Poet on a Business Trip is a black-and-white existential journey through Western China’s […]
By Emilie Van Blarcom Director: Palve Vuckovic Watch Panama on FilmDoo Following his success with shorts such as Run Rabbit Run, which won the Premier Prix at the 2003 Cinéfondation, Panama is Serbian writer and director Palve Vuckovic’s […]
By Emilie Van Blarcom Director: Joe Stephenson Watch Chicken on FilmDoo Joe Stephenson’s British drama Chicken will pull relentlessly on your heartstrings. The film portrays Richard (Scott Chambers), a gentle 15-year-old boy suffering from severe […]
By Jessica Duncanson Director: Eon-hie Lee London Korean Film Festival teaser screening review Eon-hie Lee’s Missing explores one mother’s nightmarish situation: the disappearance of her child. Struggling with the dual burden of maintaining a high-pressure […]