Reviews

Dir: Anatoly Vasilyev | Doc | Russia | 167' "I am alone like a tree that grows inside another tree".  Celebrated theatre director Anatoly Vasilyev's sensitive but unsettling documentary really sums up...

Dir.: Lucile Smith; Documentary, narrated by Zoe Wannamaker; UK 2018, 69 min. This debut feature documentary by Lucile Smith tries to uncover the life of Salomon Jacob ‘Sally’ Noach, who saved...

Marrakech International Film Festival (FIFM) is back this year under the artistic control of its newly appointed director Christoph Terhechte. It will run from 30 November until 8 December 2018. Terhechte...

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...