Dir/Scr Hong Sang-soo. South Korea. 2018. 96mins The meaning of life seeps through the quietest moments of Hong Sang-Soo’s GANGBYUN HOTEL (HOTEL BY THE RIVER), a poetic cocktail of family dysfunction...

Dir.: Benjamin Crotty; Cast: Alexis Manetti, Antoine Cholet, Pauline Jacquard, Caroline Deruas; France 2018, 26 min. Winner of the Mantarraya award at this year’s Locarno Film festival, Benjamin Crotty’s quirky exploration...

Dir: Yeo Siew Hua | Drama | 95'  A Land Imagined could have been rather a good noirish thriller, judging from the early scenes which see a slightly sleazy Singapore detective hot...

Dir: Ciro Guerra |Dir/Prod: Cristina Gallego | Drama | Colombia | Cast: | Carmina  Martínez, Jhon Narváez, José Acosta, José Vicente Cotes, Juan Martínez, Natalia Reyes | 110’ Embrace of the Serpent (2015) was the first Colombian...

Dir/Writer: Antoine Russbach, Emmanuel Marre | Switzerland,Belgium | Cast: Olivier Gourmet | August 2018 | 100' Premiering here at Locarno Film Festival, this hugely enjoyable and absorbing drama from Swiss director Antoine...

Writer/Dir: Balint Kenyeres | Cast: Vlad Ivanov | Thriller | 119' Hungarian filmmaker Balint Kenyeres is best known for his Cannes awarded short film Before Dawn and The History Of Aviation which opened the Directors’...

Dir.: Duccio Chiarini; Cast: Daniele Parisi, Sylvia d’Amico, Mivia Marigliano, Sergio Peirattini, Daniele Natali, Thony, Anna Bellato; Italy 2018, 93 min. Duccio Chiarini's portrait of Italian middle-class malaise is familiar all...

  Dir: Yolande Zauberman | Doc | Israel/France | 103' Entering the secret sexual world of Israel's Hasidic Jewish community feels like a privilege and a revelation in this incendiary, no holds...

Dir/Scr Hong Sang-soo. South Korea. 2018. 96mins The meaning of life seeps through the quietest moments of Hong Sang-Soo’s GANGBYUN HOTEL (HOTEL BY THE RIVER), a poetic cocktail of family dysfunction...