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By Jessica Duncanson These ten documentaries deal with issues surrounding various fundamental human rights. From gender equality to authority over . More

By David Pountain Anette Belley's understated short La Traverse is that rare coming-of-age film to respect the nuances and gradualism of the . More

By David Pountain Directed by Guilherme Coelho Chicago International Film Festival review When inactivity, uncertainty and a lack of . More

This week, we bring you an array of documentary features and narrative shorts spanning the nations of Cuba, the UK, Australia, Italy and . More

This week we bring you an award-winning and controversial drama from Hong Kong, a horror film from Britain and a comedy from . More

Over the past few months, FilmDoo has published a series of articles on the multifaceted impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the film industry, . More

By David Pountain Directors: Jonathan Yi and Michael Haertlein Watch Mad Tiger on FilmDoo Transcending the limitations of the well-worn . More

By Sharon Calingasan Director: Sara Blecher Watch on FilmDoo.com This film by multi-award-winning director Sara Blecher (Otelo Burning, . More

By David Pountain Directed by Daniel di Grado Sitges Film Festival review Anyone who remembers Kimberly Peirce's 2013 Carrie remake (and I . More

By David Pountain Directed by Pepe Diokno At its heart, Pepe Diokno's Above the Clouds is a single journey of thought expressed through a slow . More

By David Pountain Watch Stevie on FilmDoo.com In Chloe Jury-Fogel's charming and insightful Stevie, a series of small, low-key moments and . More

By David Pountain Watch Love Letters Are Ridiculous on FilmDoo Alvarina Souza Silva's Love Letters Are Ridiculous is a mid-20th century . More

As we’ve outlined in a series of articles published in the past few months, the spread of COVID-19 is sending ripples through the international . More

By David Pountain Interview translated by Kiradit Sachdev Watch Again on FilmDoo Navigating delicate territory with appropriate restraint . More

Dir: John Curran Tracks, an independent Australian film about Robyn Davidson - a woman who crossed 1,700 mile trek in West Australia with four . More

By  David Pountain As one half of the New York production team Purple Milk, director Natalia Leite's body of work is alive with a spirit of . More

By David Pountain Watch W.A.K.A. on FilmDoo.com Francoise Ellong's intense feature debut, W.A.K.A., takes an unflinching look at the . More

By David Pountain Watch If I Close My Eyes I'm Not Here on FilmDoo With its nuanced characterisations and sensitive, intellectually honest . More

Violent works of shock cinema that seek to cynically appeal to the sadistic (or is that masochistic?) urges of your average gore hound are a dime a . More

FilmDoo is proud to announce the launch of their Diversity Film Programme for Businesses, a project aimed at providing a rich new set of resources . More

Since the early days of cinema, film has often been used as an effective political weapon, either as propaganda or simply to campaign and agitate. . More

Watch Girls Lost on FilmDoo Swedish director Alexandra-Therese Keining follows up 2011's acclaimed Kiss Me - the passionate story of a young woman . More

By David Pountain A potent exercise in sustained dread, Judd Myer's horror short Son is an efficient and effective construction of ominous, . More

This week, we bring you a compelling collection of shorts, showcasing rising film talent from France and Argentina. Scroll down to learn . More

By David Pountain Directed by Patrick Vollrath Everything Will Be Okay, the slow-burning short from Patrick Vollrath, expands upon the . More

By David Pountain Panos Koutras' Xenia is a funny, organically composed and affecting drama that succeeds on levels both personal and national. . More

This week we bring you a politically charged documentary from Brazil, a compilation of exciting new gay shorts from around the world, a coming-of-age . More

By Sharon Calingasan Director: Jan Cvitkovic Watch on FilmDoo.com Slovenian comedy Siska Deluxe is the story of a beautiful friendship . More

By David Pountain Based on the 2011 short film of the same name, Cat Skin from British director Daniel Grasskamp is an understated tale of young . More

By David Pountain Speed Dating, a sprightly comedy short from Meghann Artes, holds a timid energy in its style that amusingly reflects the . More

Looking for a deep-dive into the vibrant world of bite-sized Argentinian cinema but aren’t sure of the best place to start? Well, look no further. . More

By David Pountain Kate Maveau's entrancingly shot Shimi is set in a strange and vibrant reality where danger and discomfort seem inherently linked . More

Actress and playwright Julie Cheung-Inhin was on the Race Equality Committee of the actors’ union, Equity, when a controversy erupted around . More

By David Pountain Dir: Lucio Fulci Watch The New York Ripper on FilmDoo Of the many talented directors to work in the heyday of Italian . More

Dir: Wim Wenders By David Pountain Wim Wenders' much acclaimed fantasy Wings of Desire (original title: Der Himmel í¼ber Berlin) is, at least . More

La plataforma inglesa de video bajo demanda (VOD) lanza en Seedrs una nueva campaña de financiación para dinamizar y modernizar el actual modelo . More

This week we bring you an exciting new compilation of British shorts along with several Belgian-produced documentaries that span periods and . More

In the darkly comic History of Nipples, Ron Burt (Joseph Macnab) falls down an existential rabbit hole pondering a question that all of us have asked . More

By Jessica Duncanson Studying a range of members from the LGBT community and looking at various key points in time, these documentaries all . More

By Charlie Roberson Directed by Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi Few genres of cinema are as diverse or as important as the documentary, but 5 Broken . More

By David Pountain Director: Francoise Ellong Watch W.A.K.A. on FilmDoo.com Pulsing with nocturnal gloom and propelled by tragic . More

By David Pountain As editor of the FilmDoo blog, I most certainly haven't seen every film that the platform has made available to stream this year . More

By David Pountain Filmed over a six year period, Colin Rothbart's inspiring big screen debut, Dressed as a Girl, is a humorous, affectionate . More

By David Pountain London Korean Film Festival review Watch more Korean films on FilmDoo Director: Jeong-Yeol Choi What starts off as a . More

This week, we bring you a selection of exciting and award-winning short films spanning three continents. Scroll down to learn . More

This week, we bring you an eclectic selection of European films, spanning the nations of Switzerland, Italy, Greece and beyond, plus a pair of new . More

By David Pountain Directed by Charles Najman With its sombre colour scheme and historically loaded subject matter, Charles Najman's . More

At FilmDoo, we're always looking for eager new writers to contribute reviews, interviews and features to the blog. If you have a passion for cinema . More

Britische Video-on-Demand-Plattform startet mit Crowdfunding-Kampagne auf dem deutschen Markt London – FilmDoo, die britische . More

By David Pountain Dir: Yoshihiro Nakamura Watch Fish Story on FilmDoo Fish Story, a hard-rocking sugar rush of a comedy from Yoshihiro . More

By David Pountain Directed by Mir-Jean Bou Chaaya London Film Festival review While the basic premise of Very Big Shot could be described, . More

By David Pountain Director: Robert H. Lieberman In Robert H. Lieberman’s Angkor Awakens: A Portrait of Cambodia, history is a collective . More

By David Pountain Directed by Neto Villalobos All About the Feathers, a sweet and Sisyphean comedy from Neto Villalobos, operates by the . More

By Pirjo Leek Alrik Bursell's short sci-fi film Strange Thing is a story of how a lazy breakfast at home turns into a spine-tingling . More

UK-based video-on-demand platform FilmDoo launched their Seedrs campaign in late August to fund modern day film distribution. FilmDoo, the leading . More

Questions by David Pountain, Mina Stanikic from Kultur Kokoška and Adriana Rosati from Asian Film Vault. Like a warmly introspective, . More

With the recent launch of the Diversity Film Programme for Businesses, FilmDoo aims to enrich and expand the conversation on inclusion in the . More

By David Pountain Directed by Angga Dwimas Sasongko It takes a lot of sincerity to treat a subject as commonplace and low-stakes as . More

Director: Julia Ducournau London Film Festival 2021 review In their most visceral moments, Julia Ducournau’s films deliver the kind of . More

UK-based video-on-demand platform FilmDoo launched their Seedrs campaign in late August to fund modern day film distribution. FilmDoo, the leading . More

By David Pountain Directed by Florin Serban Toronto International Film Festival review Cinema today would be in a better state if more . More

Dir: David Zellner Review by: Daria Landal Minnesota's unlikely urban legend, a depressed Japanese woman lost in the woods of Fargo in the . More

By David Pountain Directed by Ella Manzheeva Warsaw Film Festival review Ella Manzheeva's The Gulls is a directorial debut of unusual . More

By Daria Landal Our next entry in FilmDoo's campaign for Female Directors is Eleonora Mignoli, an Italian filmmaker working around the world and . More

By Jessica Duncanson Watch Closet Monster on FilmDoo Closet Monster is a turbulent story of sexuality, creativity and growth. The film follows . More

By David Pountain With its relentlessly bleak visual palette and intensely troubling subject matter (namely murder and child molestation), it's . More

This week, we expand our collection of LGBTQ+ cinema with some new releases from Asia, Australia and Europe, while also bringing you a pair of . More

By David Pountain As his body of work will attest, Portuguese director José Pedro Lopes has a clear penchant for the macabre, often presenting . More

By David Pountain Tim Marshall's gorilla is an open and entrancing short that itself inspires an openness to the universe at large. Beginning . More

By David Pountain Director: Emmanuel Sapolsky Watch The Eye of Silence on FilmDoo Emmanuel Sapolsky's The Eye of Silence is a taut, . More

By David Pountain Directed by Federico Fellini Widely touted as one of the all-time great works of cinema, Federico Fellini's 8½ is an elusive . More

By David Pountain Dir: Dario Argento Watch Suspiria on FilmDoo Dario Argento's kaleidoscopic classic Suspiria is not set in our world. . More

By David Pountain From the strained central relationship of twin drama Give Me Your Hand to the outlandish personal journey of short . More

By David Pountain London Korean Film Festival review Watch more Korean films on FilmDoo Director: Ji-Woo Jung Ji-woo Jung's Fourth Place . More

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 . More

COVID-19 is having a significant impact on the ways in which films are being released and viewed. Studios have bumped their big releases to months . More

By Jane McKerrow Warning: Intro may contain traces of sarcasm You know who really has it hard these days? Straight white men. Ever since Mad . More

This week, we bring you an eclectic selection of short films spanning the regions of Argentina, France, China and beyond. Scroll down to learn . More

Questions by David Pountain and ?ukasz Ma?kowski from ?ferat Filmowy. Japanese writer-director Akiko Ohku shows a rare understanding of the sad . More

Director: Todd Haynes London Film Festival 2021 review Todd Haynes’ The Velvet Underground opens with a 1963 clip from the US gameshow I've . More

By Owen Peters Directed by Michael Winterbottom There is something satisfying to being the first: The band you rated when everyone said they . More

This week, we bring you an intriguing selection of shorts from Ecuador, courtesy of Incine Universitario, plus a pair of new films from Italy and . More

By David Pountain Director: Yuri Norshteyn At the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Arts Festival, a large international jury of critics and animators . More

By David Pountain With the poignant, socially resonant short BobbyAnna, writer-director Jackson Kroopf crafts an intimate tale of nocturnal . More

By David Pountain Directed by Jake Mahaffy  Venice Film Festival review  In the Old Testament's Book of Job, the consistently devout . More

By David Pountain Watch Parts of the Heart on FilmDoo On record as a passionate proponent of low-budget cinema, American-Indonesian . More

By David Pountain Writer/producer/director/actor Brian Petsos has been making the rounds of American comedy for a few years now. Between . More

By David Pountain As the son of legendary director Nicolas Roeg (Don't Look Now, Performance) and iconic actress Theresa Russell (Bad Timing, . More

By David Pountain Tying the past to the present and finding absurdity in reality, Lusine Sargsyan's The Abode sympathetically observes the humour, . More

By David Pountain Polish director Tomasz Mielnik packs more ideas and memorable set pieces into his debut feature, Journey to Rome, than many . More

Even at the best of times, filmmaking is a precarious line of work, governed by an array of challenging and unpredictable factors, from distribution . More

By Jessica Duncanson While the Eastern European horror genre may bring a certain controversial Serbian feature to mind for many, the region has . More

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 . More

By David Pountain Dir. David Tosh Gitonga Co-produced by the internationally recognised Tom Tykwer, Nairobi Half Life has a place in Kenyan . More

London's East End Film Festival will showcase a diverse range of LGBT films in June 2017. Taking place every weekend in June at various cinemas . More

Dir: Andrew Haigh Review by David Pountain 'Balanced' may not seem like the most exciting adjective to attach to a socially conscious film. The . More

By David Pountain From the resonant absurdity of The Wayward Cloud to the most penetrating finale of the year in Stray Dogs, Chen Shiang-chyi has . More

By Jane McKerrow and David Pountain Drawing comparisons to Donald Cammell's Performance, David Cronenberg's Shivers and Bong Joon-Ho's . More

By David Pountain Dir: Alain Guiraudie Alain Guiraudie has recently found his way onto international radars with the masterful drama Stranger . More

This week, we bring you a selection of European shorts, courtesy of Sayonara Film, spanning the nations of Italy, France, Latvia and . More

By David Pountain Dir: Sion Sono Watch Himizu on FilmDoo Himizu, a powerful, often strangely funny drama from Sion Sono, could have easily . More

By David Pountain Watch Somewhere in the Middle on FilmDoo In Lanre Olabisi's endearing and perceptive Somewhere in the Middle, every . More

By Jessica Duncanson Director: David France  East End Film Festival 2017 review Director David France positioned himself as a crucial LGBT . More

By David Pountain Slated for release in US cinemas this coming May, Time Lapse, the mind-bending directorial feature-length debut of Bradley King, . More

By David Pountain Dir: Sion Sono Watch Love Exposure on FilmDoo Clocking in at just under four hours, Sion Sono's triumphant Love . More

By David Pountain Watch Liberty’s Secret on FilmDoo Both a cheeky satire of 'the song and dance of politics' and an optimistic celebration . More

Questions by Paige Lim and David Pountain Back in 2011, Taiwanese writer-director Giddens Ko broke box office records in Taiwan, Singapore and . More

By David Pountain Dir: Bradley King Time Lapse, the multiple award-winning directorial feature-length debut of Bradley King, is a film that . More

By David Pountain Directed by Philippe Lesage  Raindance Film Festival review There is a generous array of cinematic reference points that . More

By David Pountain Directed by Jí¶rn Threlfall Thirteen years after Irreversible and fifteen years after Memento, it's by now pretty safe to . More

By David Pountain Watch Me, Myself and Her on FilmDoo Italian director Maria Sole Tognazzi's latest feature, Me, Myself and Her (original . More

By David Pountain When the young, American Jim Park gets violently thrown out of a Seoul club after breaking up with his boyfriend, the experience . More

By David Pountain Tom Waller's award-winning Thai film, The Last Executioner, takes an unconventionally spiritual approach to a fascinating true . More

By David Pountain Beginning its story amidst the vibrant fields and sunny skies of childhood before progressing into the romance of young . More

By David Pountain Directed by Miguel Libedinsky Watch Hearts of Tango on FilmDoo "When you're dancing tango, you are managing five . More

Written by Alice Pickard Dir: Upi Avianto Upi Avianto's psychological thriller-cum-horror is a thickly layered web of intrigue that may entail . More

By Asha New Director: Anne Émond Toronto International Film Festival review Our Loved Ones is a film that focuses on people, and the . More

By David Pountain Watch Cold Harbour on FilmDoo.com Carey McKenzie's Cold Harbour is a South African crime thriller informed by a new era of . More

By David Pountain European Film Market review Director: Katja Wik Made up of a trio of parallel narratives linked mainly by theme, it's . More

As FilmDoo's Campaign for Female Directors continues, meet our next interviewee, the talented British TV and film director Alex Kalymnios! Find out . More

So far, Tracks has only debuted in film festivals around the world (nabbing nominations for Best Film at London and Venice). However, this is a film . More

Kidnapped for Christ explores the world of boarding schools for so-called 'troubled teens'. The film reveals physical and emotional abuse and . More

UK-based video-on-demand platform FilmDoo has launched a Seedrs campaign to fund modern day film distribution. LONDON - FilmDoo, the leading . More

By David Pountain Directed by Colin Rothbart The outlandish performance artists of East London's alternative drag scene are no strangers to . More

By David Pountain An intricate and attentive paralleling of two ostensibly disparate worlds, Florin Serban's Romanian drama Box is a work of . More

Doc'n Roll Film Festival 2017 interview Giorgio Guernier's documentary Suburban Steps to Rockland: The Story of the Ealing Club looks at the . More

By David Pountain The history of foreign filmmakers managing to find critical and commercial success in Hollywood goes at least as far back as the . More

Directors: William Fairman and Max Gogarty London Film Festival review Watch Chemsex on FilmDoo Not even the distressing subject matter of . More

By Lauren Hurrell Quiz is an independent American horror short film directed by A.D. Schmidt. The unsettling storyline tracks our apprehensive . More

The following feature is compiled from a series of articles published by FilmDoo over the course of 2020, with contributions from William . More

By David Pountain Directed by David Calek and Jakub Zahradní­cek In its own, more accessible way, the reality of David Calek and Jakub . More

By David Pountain Deconstructing gender roles against a backdrop of pervasive prejudice and legal persecution, Hassene Belai?d’s short drama . More

By David Pountain Set in an alternate reality where openly straight people are the target of stigma, Tyler Glodt's short cheekily flips the script . More

By David Pountain Dir: Lee Chang-dong Dodging the patronising pitfalls common to disability drama and wrenching the "˜unconventional romance' . More

By Benjamin Brown Directed by Drew Tobia "And remember: the passion for destruction is also a creative passion."- Old Anarchist from Slacker. . More

By David Pountain More than thirty years since the premiere of Monika Treut's feature film debut, the German auteur most famous for her queer . More

By David Pountain Lee Po-cheung's funny and affecting Gangster Payday is not your typical Hong Kong triad flick. Bypassing the taut set pieces and . More

As we’ve outlined in a series of COVID-19 articles over the past few weeks, the spread of the global pandemic has had a considerable and . More

By David Pountain Dir. Federico Fellini Watch La Dolce Vita on FilmDoo Tender, funny, mischievous and worrying, the notorious La Dolce . More

This week, we bring you a romantic pair of dramas from Singapore, plus an homage to Italian horror from France. Scroll down to learn . More

By David Pountain Directed by Fiona Cunningham-Reid Watch Croc A Dyke Dundee on FilmDoo "This is her story – well...one version at . More

The 67th Cannes Film Festival kicks off today, with the anticipated biopic "Grace de Monaco" as the opening film.  Have a read below and make . More

Dir: Todd Haynes By David Pountain Anyone familiar with Todd Haynes' wonderful 2007 Bob Dylan tribute I'm Not There will know that the man has . More

By David Pountain "I've always felt like an outsider because I did my own films by myself without money when I started my career. I didn't know . More

Britische Video-on-Demand (VOD) Plattform FilmDoo revolutioniert moderne Film-Distribution. London - FilmDoo, die fí¼hrende . More

Take Me To The River explores the sensitivity of longstanding family tensions from the perspective of Ryder, a gay Californian teenager that . More

By David Pountain Directed by Natalia Leite Tribeca Film Festival review Bare, the vibrant feature-length debut of Natalia Leite, is a drama . More

By David Pountain Benedict Campbell's 2008 short Lloyd Neck is a moment of quiet contemplation amidst the bustle and bitchiness of adolescent . More

Watch Departure on FilmDoo.com In Andrew Steggall's enigmatic, delicately crafted Departure, the young Elliot, played by Alex Lawther, is the . More

by David Pountain Director: Roberto Minervini There was once a time where it was hard to find a cinematic vision of the American rural south . More