Director: Kamila Tarabura True to its succinctly evocative title, Into the Night feels less like a complete chapter in the life of the young Krysia (Agnieszka Rajda) than a single point of transition, marking the moment […]
Female Directors
Director: Cathy Brady London Film Festival 2020 review The past is never really past in Cathy Brady’s turbulent feature debut, which blends the personal with the political for a thematically rich portrayal of lasting trauma in the long shadow […]
Director: Elizabeth Lo London Film Festival 2020 review In showing us a world and a way of life that runs parallel to our own, Elizabeth Lo’s Stray resonates as a multifaceted piece of socio-political commentary nestled within an immersive and […]
An air of sad inevitably fills the awkward silences of Scattered Night as the young Su-min (Moon Seung-ah) and her older brother Jin-ho (Choi Joon-woo) struggle to understand why their family is in the process of […]
In director Shim Hye-jung’s A Bedsore, a paralysed woman’s festering ulcer serves as the catalyst for her family’s gradual implosion, as husband Chang-sik (Kim Jong-gu) clashes with his self-involved children and caretaker Sook-ok (Jeon Guk-hyang) […]
Writer-director Kim Bo-ra’s House of Hummingbird is a coming-of-age film of rare patience and clarity, imbuing the wandering existence of 14-year-old Eun-hee (Park Ji-hu) and her 1994 Seoul environment with understated mood and a vivid sense […]