Director: Penny Lane IFFR 2019 review Penny Lane’s Hail Satan? is a surprisingly uplifting demystification of an organisation that possibly relies on being misunderstood. Though the sinister public image of The Satanic Temple is immediately taken […]
Director: Rosanne Pel By the very nature of its grim central incident, Light as Feathers leaves itself wide open to accusations of exploitation. But while the feature debut of Rosanne Pel is ‘shocking’ in the same […]
The cinema of Kwon Hayoun is haunted by absence, standing as a ghostly echo of what’s long gone or never was. Though her short films use real-life stories and experiences as their subjects, these elegiac […]
The titular relationship of The Poet and the Boy is defined by a one-sided and stifled passion that might still serve as a preferable alternative to no passion at all. In the directorial debut of Kim Yang-hee, Yang […]
Watch No Shade on FilmDoo Channelling timely and intersectional social commentary through a web of intersecting relationships, No Shade presents an articulate and accessible picture of colourism in Black British communities. Centring its ensemble drama around the […]
Questions by David Pountain and Łukasz Mańkowski from れferat Filmowy. Japanese writer-director Akiko Ohku shows a rare understanding of the sad and comical inner narratives of a naïve young introvert with her eccentric new post-adolescent coming-of-age rom-com Tremble All […]
