Reviews

Dir.: Aleksey Fedorchenko; Cast: Marta Kozlava; Russia 2018, 74 min. Marta Kozlava makes a stunning debut as a six-year old Jewish girl hiding from the Nazis in Silent Souls director Aleksey...

Dir.: Ivan I. Tverdovsky; Cast: Denis Vlasenko, Anne Slyu, Daniil Steklov; Russia/ROI/France/ Lithuania 2018, 87 min. Ivan I. Tverdovsky follows up his zany Zoology with a darker feature, another harsh critique of...

Dir: Natalia Meshchaninova | Drama | Russia, Lithuania | 123' Best known for her debut The Hope Factory, Natalia Meshchaninova's award-winning sophomore feature is an acutely observed and thoughtfully performed story...

Dir: Rustam Khamdamov | Fantasy Drama | Russia, 2017 | 104' Akira Kurosawa was not the only auteur to be entranced by the Japanese classic story on which he based Rashomon. Filmmaker...

Dir: Elizaveta Stishova | Cast:Daniel Daiybekov, Turgunai Erkinbekova, Perizat Ermanbaeva | Drama | Kyrgyzstan | 101' Enlivened by offbeat humour and vibrant widescreen images reflecting the rugged beauty of this wild...

Dir/Writer: Nuri Bilge Ceylan/Ebru Ceylan | Cast: Serkan Keskin, Hazar Erguclu, Ahmet Rifat Sungar | Drama | Turkey/France/Germany/Bulgaria/Macedonia/Bosnia and Herzegovina/Sweden 2018 | 188' For some the countryside is a retreat where hopes and...

Dir.: Eric Barbier; Cast: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Pierre Niney, Pavel Puchalski, Nino Schiffman, Catherine McCormack, Jean-Pierre Daroussin; France/Belgium 2017, 131 min. Eric Barbier’s screen adaptation of PROMISE AT DAWN has been embellished...

Dir.: Catherine Lurie; Documentary; UK/Bulgaria/Czech Republic/Germany/Greece/ Hungary/ Israel/ Poland/ Romania/Slovakia 2018, 75 min. Catherine Lurie produced, directed and scripted this lively re-imagining of the first Maccabiah biker rally in the early...

Dir.: Peter Mettler, Emma Davie; Documentary with David Abram; Switzerland/UK 2018, 78 min. Peter Mettler (The End of Time) and Emma Davie (I am Breathing) direct, edit and film philosopher David...