Rotterdam 2021 Review: LANDSCAPES OF RESISTANCE, Topography of Oppression and Historical Memory
The video-essayistic traveling memoir by Marta Popivoda explores the intersection of historical and personal memory.
Berlinale 2021 Preview: Radu Jude, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Hong Sangsoo, Céline Sciamma, Bence Fliegauf to Bow in Main Competition
The 71st edition of Berlinale Film Festival will unfold in two stages, as a virtual affair for industry professionals in March and as a physical event for the public in June.
Rotterdam 2021 Review: BEBIA, À MON SEUL DÉSIR, Coming of Age in the Georgian Countryside
Debut director Juja Dobrachkous' delivers a formalist spin on a gynocentric coming-of-age story.
Rotterdam 2021 Review: THE NORTH WIND, The Ritual of Love and Death in Ornamental Fable on the Treacherous Comfort of Timelessness
Russian filmmaker Renata Litvinova immerses multigenerational magical realist melodrama into opulent theatrical grandeur.
Rotterdam 2021 Review: Political Cyber-Thriller LONE WOLF, A Visual Experiment With an Allure of Genre Film
Jonathan Ogilvie reimagines Joseph Conrad´s The Secret Agent for the era of surveillance capitalism.
Sundance 2021 Review: THE PINK CLOUD, Greek Weird Wave Gone Brazilian in Dystopic Cabin Fever Drama
The Apocalypse gets put on hold in a surreal drama from Brazil about mankind's struggle to adapt to a new normal.
Sundance 2021 Review: PLEASURE, A Triumphant Tour de Force Behind the Scenes of the Porn Industry
The standout film of 2021 Sundance demystifies the porn industry through a female lens.
Sundance 2021 Review: Rodney Ascher's Hybrid Doc A GLITCH IN THE MATRIX Simulates Belief
Rodney Ascher nose-dives into the rabbit hole of simulation theory argument in a cyber-acid documentary.
Sundance 2021 Review: Orwell Meets Švankmajer in Retro-Futuro Metaphysical Romance Adventure STRAWBERRY MANSION
Writer-directing duo Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley deliver an escapist analog fantasy imbued with a technicolor retro vibe.
ScreenAnarchy Top Films of 2020
One of the great advantages of ScreenAnarchy's global writing staff is that our individual end-of-year lists always have a least a few titles that the rest of us have not only not seen, but likely haven't heard of. And I'm...
Cottbus 2020 Review: DRONEMAN Resorts to a Radical Resolution in the Wake of Political Nihilism
The Czech director Petr Zelenka delivers timely psychological and political thriller Droneman tackling the current zeitgeist. For mainstream and arthouse audience alike.
Review: Modern-Day Snow White and the Selfie-Movie IN THE MIRROR
Esteemed Latvian director Laila Pakalniņa merges documentary conventions with the practice of single-shot films to bring the timeless tale into the era of narcissism
Tallinn 2020 Review: THE PENULTIMATE, The Grotesque Comedy on the Absurdity of Human Condition
The Danish newcomer Jonas Kærup Hjort delivers a whimsical traumedy submerged in a variety of existentialist shades.
Tallinn 2020 Review: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and ENFANT TERRIBLE
Oskar Roehler portrays the tortured genius in an unrestrained biopic about Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Warsaw 2020 Review: PREPARATIONS TO BE TOGETHER FOR AN UNKNOWN PERIOD OF TIME, Low-Key Love and Madness
Lili Horvát´s sophomore feature offers an introverted take on l´amour fou in slow-burning psychological melodrama about a romance that could have been.
Sitges 2020: Exclusive Poster Premiere For A PERFECT ENEMY
Catalan filmmaker Kike Maíllo will debut his latest film, a psychological thriller, in the Official Fantàstic Competition at Sitges Film Festival.
Febiofest Prague 2020 Review: THE LAMB, Italian Family Drama in Contaminated Sardinia
Director Mario Piredda's feature debut stars Nora Stassi, Luciano Curreli, and Piero Marcialis and is as capricious and unchained as a teenage spirit, but with a political message.
Febiofest Prague 2020 Review: WE HAD IT COMING, Artful Thriller Battles Objectification, Masculinity
Director Paul Barbeau's first English language feature stars Natalie Krill, Alexia Fast and Erin Agostino.
Venice 2020 Review: Silly Off-Kilter Comedy YELLOW CAT Harbors Bleaker Socio-Existential Observations Underneath
Adilkhan Yerzhanov's latest absurdist tragicomedy lands as close as possible to Terrence Malick's 'Badlands' as reimagined by Roy Andersson.
Venice 2020 Review: GENUS PAN, Shakespearean Tragedy on a Darwinian Stage
Filipino auteur Lav Diaz netted the Best Director award at the 2020 Venice Film Festival for his latest oeuvre.
