Dir/scr. Pema Tseden. China. 2023. 109mins The snow leopard is a protected animal in its native Tibet but it represents different things to the local people in this wild region.  Pema Tseden,...

Wri/Dir: Sebastian Lelio | Cast: Nestor Cantillana, Marco Hernandez, Patricia Lopez, Coca Guazzini, Macarena Teka | Chile, Drama 99’ 2005 Sebastian Lelio’s first film La Sagrada Familia has nothing to do...

Dir: Nikolaus Geyrhalter | Austria, Doc The pandemic lockdown still haunts our collective memory and forms the subject matter of this calm and salient reflection from Austrian documentarian Nikolaus Geyrhalter. The Standstill...

Dir: Raul Ruiz | Drama, Chile After winning the Golden Leopard for his debut Three Sad Tigers (1968)  A Wandering Soap Opera was - to all intents and purposes - his...

Raúl Ruiz | Drama, Chile 100' Ruiz’s lively debut is perhaps the purest form of cinema verite and social realism, giving a fascinating snapshot of ordinary people in Chile in the...

This year's VIENNALE retrospective is dedicated to the Chilean director, writer and poet Raúl Ernesto Ruiz Pino. Ruiz - who was born in Chile in 1941 - was exiled after Pinochet's...

Dir: Gabor Reisz | Cast: Gáspár Adonyi-Walsh, István Znamenák, András Rusznák, Rebeka Hatházi, Eliza Sodró, Lilla Kizlinger & Krisztina Urbanovits | Hungary, Drama The tensions of Hungary's polarised society come unexpectedly...

Dir: Terence Davies | UK Drama | 83' Davies’s epic, musical celebration of the working class evokes a late 40s to late 50s cultural space. This was  soon to be replaced...

March brings a chance to binge on Austrian cinema - not only the classics but the latest crop of films from edgy new directors.   This year WatchAUT celebrates its second edition...