There Is Evil
Rasoulof tries to convince the viewers of one’s causative agency, the sense of making morally difficult decisions, and the need to fight despotism…
Her Docs: Where Crabs Migrate
The eponymous hungry ghosts are the souls of those who years ago came to Christmas Island and were left without burial. The local Chinese community believes…
Her Docs: The Story of an Exploitation
The film by the Belgian artist makes us aware of the scale and opens our eyes to what we all perfectly know and effectively learned to ignore – to disregard of human rights in the name of the artificial capital-driven needs.
Les Misérables – it ain’t a good rap song
The world of “Les Misérables” is a world taken straight from a mediocre rap song. It is not about a coherent social picture…
19. IFF Watch Docs – Waiting for the Exit
Bahman Kiarostami, son of the prominent Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, who died a few years ago, fulfills the principles of cinema-as-eye in his “Exodus”. Here he grabs the camera and simply – observes people. From this unusually simple and natural, as it seems, act of observation results very much.
Splat!FilmFest – coming-of-age, capitalism and death
“The Father’s Shadow” it is not a typical coming-of-age story in which one should expect a cheerful solution to problems or at least an effective transition through the process of growing up. Gabriela Amaral creates a gloomy film, and the dark tension is not only due to the proximity of death…
Free Market, Enslaved People – Ken Loach’s “Sorry We Missed You” review
The new film by the two-time winner of the Golden Palm includes not only the story of an employee who falls into the trap of working under a private franchise (unwittingly giving up his employee rights to “work for himself”), but also a classic family drama.
13. Five Flavours Asian Film Festival: Every Balloon Must Burst
The Tibetan creator is looking at the conflict arising from the meeting of customs, beliefs and conservative culture with Chinese one-child policy.
13. Five Flavours Asian Film Festival: Nothing But Singing
Bulbul Can Sing talks about the tragedy of lost youth, taken by the conservative society. Adolescence, although it follows its natural path – the first, innocent love affairs, looks, and meetings – is brutally stopped.
How much is human life worth?
Young 14-year-old boy from Cambodia decides to give up his hard work in his family’s rice field and sets out alone with his dream of raising capital. It will soon turn out that the rice fields were in fact the only paradise he could count on.
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