Review: SERVANTS, Visually Captivating Artful Period Film About Persecution
The visual storytelling takes over the verbal narration in Ivan Ostrochovský's sophomore feature fiction film about Church's collaboration and Communist persecution.
Rotterdam Online: IFFR Offers 14-Hour-Long Anthology Film LA FLOR to Watch For Free
One film, six different stories, style and genres, and four actresses in Mariano Llinás' epic work.
RED DWARF Will Fly to The Promised Land
The intergalactic British cult sitcom gets a special, feature-film treatment.
CPH:DOX Opts to Roll Online Amid Coronavirus Outbreak
The prestigious Danish documentary festival will offer 40 digital film screenings.
Berlinale 2020 Review: BERLIN ALEXANDERPLATZ, A German Version of Hollywood
The latest rendition of Alfred Döblin's 1929 seminal novel unfolds through the lens of the current socio-political situation and fashionable aesthetics.
Berlinale 2020 Review: IRRADIATED, Extreme Supercut of Annihilation
Rithy Panh curates a gruesome history lesson in an attempt to avert macabre history repeating itself in his latest documentary.
Berlinale 2020 Review: THERE IS NO EVIL, Country Eating Its Children
Banned filmmaker "spreads propaganda against the Islamic government" portraying the mechanism of the complicity run by an authoritarian and oppressive regime.
Berlinale 2020 Review: NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS, Not Another Teenage Abortion Drama
Eliza Hittman delivers empathic and intimate drama transcending the central subject of teenage abortion.
Berlinale 2020 Review: SIBERIA, Carnivalesque Therapy Session Turned Divine Journey
Willem Dafoe stars in Abel Ferrara's Rorschach of a film that might and might not be a satire of expressionist psychoanalytical drama.
Berlinale 2020 Review: THE ROADS NOT TAKEN, Sally Potter's Melodrama Finds Empathy for a Marginalized Group
Sally Potter´s star-studded film re-examines past dilemmas and regrets in a sentimental drama with a dignified side-effect.
Rotterdam 2020 Review: COOK, F**K, KILL, Greek Weird Wave Meets Psychomagical Realism
Slovakian filmmaker Mira Fornay's original and eerie vision of domestic abuse is a daring psychoanalytical fable.
Rotterdam 2020 Review: THE ALCHEMICAL FURNACE Exposes Surrealist Maestro Jan Švankmajer
Directed by Adam Oľha, the documentary portrait goes behind the scenes on filmmaker Jan Švankmajer's works, opinions and post-retirement phase.
Rotterdam 2020 Review: PIEDRA SOLA, Andean Ethnocinema Veiled in Mythological Realism
Ancestry, rituals and myths prevail in Alejandro Telemaco Tarraf's ethnological and sensorial docu-drama.
Rotterdam 2020 Review: KALA AZAR, The Theatre of Earthly Poetry
The unassuming romance of two pet cemetery employees evolves into a larger artistic project in Janis Rafa's feature-length docu-fiction debut.
Rotterdam 2020 Review: BEASTS CLAWING AT STRAWS, Crime Comedy of Bloody Errors, Voracious Greed
One bag of money ensures a battle royale in a dark crime comedy by Kim Yong-hoon.
Rotterdam 2020 Review: NASIR, Stoicism in the Time of Assertive Hindu Nationalism
Tamil indie filmmaker Arun Karthick offers first-hand observations on the impact of Hindu nationalism.
Rotterdam 2020 Review: MEANWHILE ON EARTH, Art and Rites of the Funeral Industry
Carl Olsson's spellbinding documentary blends the banal, the comic and the pragmatic.
Rotterdam 2020 Review: THE GHOSTS, Rags, No Riches in Guatemalan Docudrama
Marvin Navas and Carlos Morales El Punisher star, as filmmaker Sebastián Lojo applies neo-noir lenses to a socio-economic docudrama.
Rotterdam 2020 Review: In THE END WILL BE SPECTACULAR, Filmmaking Meets Journalism
The under-reported resistance during the 2016 siege of Sur receives an insider's treatment, while emphasizing female empowerment in the usually male-dominated area of military conflict.
Rotterdam 2020 Interview: Fest Director Bero Beyer Talks Indie Cinema in the Age of Streamers
"It´s a rigged game," IFFR director says, on the situation of independent cinema in the era of constant transformations.
