Reviews

Dirs: Patrick McLennan, Samuel Smith | UK Doc | 76' “If you can face the water at 5 degrees, you can face anything”   Hampstead is still reeling from the unauthentic romcom...

Dir.: Jean Pierre Melville; Cast: Nicole Stéphane, Edouard Dermithe, Jacques Bernard, Renée Cosima, Maurice Revel, narrated by Jean Cocteau; France 1949/1950, 107 min. It is difficult to imagine two different directors...

Dir.: Nejib Belkadhi; Cast: Nejib Belkadhi, Souhir Ben Amara; Tunisia 2021, 95 min. A man in emotional meltdown during the early months of the pandemic is the focus of this surreal...

Dir.: Levan Koguashvili; Cast: Levan Tediashvili, Giorgi Tabidze, Nadezhada Mikalkova, Kakhi Kausadze, Tolepbergen Baisakalov, Yuriy Zur, Irakli Kavsadze, Irma Gachechiladze; Bulgaria/Georgia/Monaco/Russia/USA 2021, 90 min. Georgian director Levan Koguashvili (Street Days) captures...

Dir: Albaqer Jafeer | Doc, Iraq 74'  “You have dreams, but it’s important to fulfil them too” The cinema has long provided an escape route, a journey into a dreamworld when...

Dir/Ely Dagher | 119’ Drama Lebanon The Sea Ahead is a rather languid feature debut for Lebanese writer/director Ely Dagher opts for moody enigma at the expense of a tangible plot...

Dir/Wri: Haider Rashid | Adam Ali, Svetlana Yancheva, Mohomed Zouaoui, Michael Segal | Italy, Thriller 75' This gritty migration movie clearly takes its cue from the 1964 black and white Czechoslovak...

Dir/Wri: Mark Cousins | Doc, UK 160' A decade after The Story of Film: An Odyssey, comes Mark Cousins' latest deep dive inquiry into the state of filmmaking in the 21st...

Dir: Robert Reinert | Silent film Siegfried Kracauer - who hit thirty the year this feature came out - was able personally to recall the  film’s first release which ran in...