[Berlin Review] Fire at Sea
The opening titles of Gianfranco Rosi’s new documentary Fire at Sea state that 400,000 migrants have landed on the Sicilian island of Lampedusa in the past 20 y...
Giovanni Marchini Camia
[Berlin Review] Things to Come
The twists and turns of fate and the ways in which individuals react to them constitute the central preoccupations of Mia Hansen-Løve’s cinema. Her exceptional ...
[Karlovy Vary Review] The Summer of Sangaile
Comparisons between Alanté Kavaïté’s The Summer of Sangaile – the Lithuanian writer-director’s first feature since her 2006 debut Fissures – and Abdellatif Kech...
[Karlovy Vary Review] Bob and the Trees
Following its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, Diego Ongaro’s Bob and the Trees was featured in the main competition at Karlovy V...
[Karlovy Vary Review] Heil
After the tight scripting and austere formalism of his previous feature Stations of the Cross – a film divided into 14 chapters, each shot in a single take and ...
[Karlovy Vary Review] One Floor Below
Radu Muntean is regularly associated with the directors of the Romanian New Wave. Like many of the films to emerge from this remarkably enduring ‘movement’, One...
[Karlovy Vary Review] Mediterranea
Early into Mediterranea, Jonas Carpignano's debut feature, a pair of African immigrants who've recently arrived in Italy are standing on the platform of a rural...
[Cannes Review] The Treasure
Though regularly grouped with the directors that comprise the Romanian New Wave, Corneliu Porumboiu’s brand of social realism is all his own. Dispensing with th...
[Cannes Review] Arabian Nights
Miguel Gomes’ Our Beloved Month of August and its ecstatically received follow-up, Tabu, showcased the director’s love of storytelling as a means of contemplati...
[Cannes Review] Macbeth
Justin Kurzel’s phenomenal debut, Snowtown, portrayed the most notorious serial killings in Australian history, the Snowtown Murders. Though nigh traumatizing i...
