For the 71st Locarno Festival the British-Swiss design studio Jannuzzi Smith has created an abstract series of patterns to represent our symbol – the leopard. Drops of black ink spread...

MIRROR is a stream-of-consciousness, totally without any narrative. The narrator, on his deathbed, looks back on his life. The only structure is the time-setting: pre-war, war and post-war. Mirror is...

Hollywood may still be struggling with female representation as 2018 gets underway, but Europe has seen tremendous successes in the world of indie film where talented women of all ages...

Dir.: Ingmar Bergman; Cast: Bibi Andersson, Liv Ullmann, Margaretha Krook, Gunnar Björnstrand; Sweden, 83'. Silence has always played a big part in Ingmar Bergman’s oeuvre – his 1963 feature The Silence...

Russian auteur Andrei Tarkovsky influenced many contemporary filmmakers, amongst them Lars Von Trier, Claire Denis, Steven Soderbergh and Nuri Bilge Ceylan. All seven of Tarkovsky’s features including MIRROR (1975), SOLARIS (1972),...

Dir.: Jean-Pierre Melville; Cast: Alain Delon, Francois Perrier, Natalie Delon, Cathy Rosier; France/Italy 1967, 101’. Le Samourai is a crime thriller all about loneliness. Dialogue is minimal, and even Francois de...

Melancholy: deep and impenetrable  sadness - a retrograde state of mind. The unknown and unseen past has swallowed up present and future. The heroes and heroines of melancholic films are...

Director|Writer: Stuart Cooper Cast: Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Nicholas Ball, Julie Neesam, Sam Sewell, John Franklyn-Robbins 83min | War Drama | UK Stuart Cooper directed this impressionistic Second World War drama that follows...

Cast: Anna Karina, Sami Frey, Claude Brasseur, Louisa Colpeyn | 95 min | Drama |  France BANDE À PART, shot in 25 days and based on the pulp novel “Fool’s Gold” by Dolores...