By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
Great expectations coming from the Berlinale, as the Palast (and more than 20 venues), opens the red carpet to the most expected films, premiering in more than ten different categories of the festival
By José Sarmiento Hinojosa
Well aware that penetrating the human soul for the dark overtones that have permeated almost all of her filmography is what she does best, Claire Denis comes again with a controversial, anguish-ridden film in Les Salauds, a film that reminds us of one of the best and darkest periods of her filmography, departing somewhat from her concerns over migration and plunging deep what we call the innate call of evil.
By Giuliano Vivaldi
The Kinotavr film festival in Sochi is Russia’s major national showcase of new films and has been going now for one year short of a quarter of a century. What this particular year’s festival had to say about the state of Russian cinema was not as straightforward as first impressions seemed to offer.
By Claudia Siefen
This year’s «Diagonale“, Festival of Austrian Film, located in the city of Graz, provided a few heartfelt pulsing productions of austrian filmproduction. You have been simply on the safe side not going with the flow, to find yourself in the end on the right side. And then you have been not alone.
By Vassilis Economou
The Italian fiction films that have participated in the Torino Film Festival have failed to impress. Some of them will probably have box office success but they are not films suited for a big film festival. The Italians also have the largest part of the official international competition with three films out of sixteen.
By Vassilis Economou
The only German film in the Official Competition of Torino Film Festival is Pola Beck’s first feature film Am Himmel Der Tag (Breaking Horizons). The film is also the first from a new institution called Leuchtstoff, which is a branch of RBB (Berlin Brandenburg Broadcasting).
By José Sarmiento
In Another Country sets off to a strange beginning (though not strange by its filmmaker’s standards). A young woman (Jung Yumi) and her mother (Youn Yuhjung) get together in a seaside café and have a discussion about a debt collector they are both running from.
By Vassilis Economou
For the majority of the western audience, films from India are usually related with Bollywood themes, musicals, romantic comedies and silly action films. Fortunately there still exists a different way of filmmaking that will appeal to more eclectic tastes. I.D. is the debut film by the Indian director Kamal K.M. and it participated in the official competition of the 30th Torino Film Festival.
By Vassilis Economou
Slovak cinema has gained some acknowledgement during recent years, especially in festival circles. Až do Mesta Aš (Made in Ash) is participating in the official competition of the 30th Torino Film Festival. Torino is known for promoting new directors, and Iveta Grófová has made her debut with this feature film.
By Claudia Siefen
For me, film festivals are promises. Thanks to the Viennale I own one metre of a Peter Kubelka film (it is pinned on my corkboard now): one metre of white frames, cut out personally from the experimental short Arnulf Rainer.
Director: Mónica Delgado Ch.
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