Reviews

Dir.: Stefan Arsenijevic; Cast: Ibrahim Koma, Nancy Mensah-Offei, Maxim Khali; Serbia/ France/Luxembourg/Bulgaria, Lithuania 2021, 92 min. Serbian director/co-writer Stefan Arsenijevic transforms an epic medieval Serbian poem, 'Banovich Stralinya', into a modern...

Dir.: Frederik Louis Hviid, Anders Olholm; Cast: Jacob Lohmann. Simon Sears, Tarek Zayat, Al Jabouri, Issa Khattab; Denmark 2020, 108 min. Shorta is an intelligent a police thriller tucking a range...

Dir.: Luke White; Documentary with Nick and Alex Bourne, Molly and Charles Somers, Amber and Armand Maillard, Krich and Sachit Matrega, Thanh Nam and Tranh Viet; UK 2021, 98 min. This...

Dir: Michael Curtiz | Cast: Bette Davis, Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Vincent Price, Harry Stephenson | US Drama 106' This depiction of the love/hate relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and...

    Dir.: Iosep 'Soso' Bliadze; Cast: Nutsa Kukhianidze, Iva Kemeridze, Eka Chavleishvili, Archil Makalatia, Taki Mumladze, Vakho Chachanidze, Marlen Egutia; Georgia/Germany/Lithuania 2021, 107 min. Georgian Iosep 'Soso' Bliadze comes to Karlovy Vary...

Dir: Val Guest | Drama, US 113' Another pandemic-themed gem on Talking Pictures is this prescient drama depicting the quarantining of Bath during a smallpox epidemic (based on Elleston Trevor’s 1957 novel...

Dir.: Sean Dirkin; Cast: Jude Law, Carrie Coon, Oona Roche, Charlie Shotwell, Anne Reid, Michael Culkin; USA 2020, 107 min. After the breakout success of his debut Martha, Mary, May Marlene...

Dir.: Marta Popivoda; Documentary with Sofija Sonja Vujanovic, Ivo Vujanovic; Serbia/ Germany/France 2021; 95 min. Sonja was one of the first female partisans in Serbia and helped lead the resistance in...

Dir.: Ulrike Ottinger; Documentary; France/Germany 2020, 129 min. German painter, photographer and filmmaker Ulrike Ottinger (Joan of Arc of Mongolia) a "Berlinale Kamera" in 2020 for her oeuvre. The  biographical documentary...