Reviews

The Italian Neo-Realist movement kicked off just after the Second World War and brought together a group of Italian filmmakers who focused their ideas on stories set amongst the poor and...

Dir: Jennifer Peedom Narrator: Willem Dafoe | Doc | 74' | Australia Willem Dafoe narrates Sherpa director Jennifer Peedom’s dazzling documentary about a growing obsession with mountain climbing. And for those...

Dir: Verena Paravel, Julien Castaing-Taylor | 97' | Doc | France Documentarians Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor (Leviathan) are back with another impressionist take on human behaviour, which although highly imaginative...

Writer| Director: Jia Zhang-ke | Cast: Tao Zhao, Yi Zhang, Zijian Dong, Jing Dong Liang | 131'   Drama  China “Time will transform mountains and rivers, but our hearts will remain the same...

Dir|Writer: Iram Haq | Cast: Adil Hussain, Maria Mozhdah, Ekavali Khanna, Rohit Saraf  | Norwegian/Urdu | 106' | Drama  Actor/director Iram Haq's impressive sophomore title WHAT WILL PEOPLE SAY plays out as...

Dir: Valentin wolrd Hitz; Cast: Clemens Schick; Lena Lanzemis, Marion Mitterhammer, Daniel Olbrychski; Austria/Germany/Switzerland 2016, 96' HIDDEN RESERVES sees Vienna 2033 as a frightening dystopian landscape where even dying is not...

Russian auteur Andrei Tarkovsky influenced many contemporary filmmakers, amongst them Lars Von Trier, Claire Denis, Steven Soderbergh and Nuri Bilge Ceylan. All seven of Tarkovsky’s features including MIRROR (1975), SOLARIS (1972),...

Dir.: Abraham Polonsky; Cast: John Garfield, Thomas Gomez, Beatrice Pearson, Marie Windsor, Roy Roberts, Howland Chamberlain; USA 1948, 78’ Director/co-writer Abraham Polonsky’s stylish noir thriller is a critique of capitalism and...

Dir: Joshua Z Weinstein |Documentary | USA / Israel | Yiddish, English | 81 min · Colour There's a faint but unintentional whiff of Woody Allen to Joshua Weinstein's sorrowful cinema verite portrait of a...