Film Review: The Absent One (2014)
byFrom Denmark comes director Mikkel Norgaard’s film The Absent One, the second instalment in the Department Q series based on the novels by Jussi…
Festivals
Film Review: They Have Escaped (2014)
byIn Finnish film They Have Escaped, director Jukka-Pekka Valkeapää, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Pilvi Peltola, offers a dark and unsettling look into…
Film Review: Silent Heart (2014)
byDanish film Silent Heart explores the sensitive issue of euthanasia by grounding its political stance in the personal and the intimate. Directed by Bille…
Review: Blowfly Park (2014)
byIn Swedish film Blowfly Park, director and screenwriter Jens Östberg has crafted a restrained and stylish portrait of an ordinary man grappling with the…
Film Review: Out of Nature (2014)
byStable job. Nice home. Loving wife. Healthy son. It’s a tough life. To get away from it all, Martin (Ole Giæver) embarks on a…
Film Review: David Bowie Is A Documentary (2015)
byFirst David Bowie was ‘David Robert Jones’, before he changed his name in 1965. Then David Bowie was an up and coming musician after…
Film Review: Zero Motivation (2014)
byThe first feature film from writer/director Talya Lavie can best be summarized by M*A*S*H crossed with Lena Dunham’s Girls, with a spoonful of The…
Film Review: The Cut (2014)
byWWI. Inarguably the greatest moral atrocity committed during a period of great moral atrocities was the genocide of the Armenians by the Ottoman Empire….
Film Review: The Dark Valley (2014)
byPosing as a photographer, a lone horseman rides into a remote village somewhere in the Austrian Alps. Going simply by the name Greider (Sam…
Film Review: Who am I – No System is Safe (2014)
byWho Am I – No System Is Safe is the sophomore feature from German director Baran bo Odar. The film takes place in the…