Reviews

Dir: Nick Fenton, Peter Strickland.  With Björk, Manu Delgado, Graduale Nobili, UK Filmed concert, 97min Like most artists, Björk is uncompromising - you have to be, really, to preserve your creative...

Dir.: Agnès Troublé; Cast: Lou-Lélia Demerliac, Sylvie Testud, Jacques Bonnaffe, Douglas Gordon France 2013, 120 min. In Je m'appelle Hmm... Agnès Troublé (aka agnès b) turns her considerable talents as a fashion...

Dir.: Morten Tyldum; Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Charles Dance; UK/USA 2014, 114 min. Tyldum’s moving biographical feature tells the story of the most unsung hero of British wartime...

Director: Constantin Wulff 52min Documentary Switzerland/Austria/Germany Ulrich Seidl, the never-far-from-controversy Austrian director of Dog Days, Import/Export and the Paradise trilogy, is the subject of this striking portrait that follows him as he...

Director/Writer: Zhanna ISSABAYEVA Cast: Dina Tukubayeva, Galina Pyanova, Aidar Mukhametzhanov 80min KAZAKH, RUSSIAN - Drama - KAZAKHSTAN 80 min Russian with subtitles Belonging, being wanted and loved are universal themes that Kazakh director,...

Director: Kim Ki-duk Cast: Lee Eun-woo, Cho Jae-hyun, Seo Young-ju Drama  Korea After his triumphal Golden Lion win (in 2012) with Pietà, a vile drama about maternal incest - Korean maverick, Kim Ki-duk,...

Dir: Writer: Ilian Metev Cast: Mila Mikhalilova, Plamen Slavkov, Krassimir Yordanov, Ilian Metev 75min   Doc   Bulgaria Director Ilian Metev joins a stressed-out and under-funded medical team of Mila, Krassi and Plamen...

Dir.: Fellipe Barbosa Cast: Thales Cavalcanti, Marcello Noaves, Suzanne Pires, Clarissa Pinheiro, Bruna Amaya, Alice Melo Brazil 2014, 114 min. Fellipe Barbosa’s feature film debut is somewhere between late Buñuel and a Brazilian...

Director: Sudabeh Mortezai Ramasan Minkailov, Aslan Elbiev, Kheda Gazieva, Rosa Minailova 93min   German and Chechen   Drama Berlinale 2014 was awash with really good films about children, particularly boys. MACONDO was one...