Everytime ★★★
A sunrise casts a strangely beautiful light on a row of drab apartment towers from one of which something suddenlyContinue Reading
Author: Lida Bach
John Lennon: The Last Interview (documentary) ★★
One day we will all be replaced by computers, says Yoko Ono in an ironic moment of Steven Soderbergh‘s inevitablyContinue Reading
We Are Aliens ★★★
Childhood constructs of the world around and the seismic reverberations their collapse send into adulthood drive Kohei Kadowaki‘s engrossing debutContinue Reading
Tangles ★★★
The nostalgic flair ingrained in the black-and-white images of Leah Nelson‘s animated debut feature gradually turns bitter as the diseaseContinue Reading
All of a Sudden ★½
There’s a certain irony in a film of over three hours in length and as deliberately slow-paced as Ryusuke Hamaguchi’sContinue Reading
Bouchra (documentary) ★★
A poignant side note to Meriem Bennani‘s feature film debut, directed together with her frequent collaborator Orian Barki, is itsContinue Reading
Like Any Other Mortal (documentary) ★★½
Mars and Spain seem not so far from each other after all, in María Molina Peiró‘s philosophical documentary hybrid thatContinue Reading
The Mother Age (documentary) ★★½
In an age of devastating wars and alarming climate change, Irene Kaltenborn‘s pensive documentary takes inspiration from the classic sci-fiContinue Reading
Open My Mind (documentary) ★½
“It was the drugs,” wrote Marcel Wyss‘ brother in his last note before taking his own life. So it’s understandableContinue Reading
The Calf Doll (documentary) ★★★
With a title and premise equally fitting for an ancient fairy tale or horror, Ankur Hooda‘s devastating debut feature TheContinue Reading
