Category: Review

The opening seconds of Kate Novack‘s terrific visual case study, Hysterical Girl, sifts your psyche through several potential discourses of film story-telling. A blizzard of…

First loves can be sweet and fleeting, or intense and tumultuous. Goodbye First Love, the 2011 third feature from director Mia Hansen-Løve, lands in the…

Wherever we live in this world, or wherever we have been, seldom few of us can share our experiences of being a thirteen year-old girl…

In Kimmy Gatewood‘s masterful short film Control, the protagonist’s immaculate attention to detail is a truly admirable strength as well as a sign of her…

Once you understand the tone of Stephanie Kaznocha‘s Confessions, you’ll soon realize how much fun a pair of old ladies can be. And when they…

Ninnoc’s pensive, sombre stare might be a burdened distraction from those big blue beautiful eyes. The echoes of children in the school halls is deliberately…

Meet Nadia Murad, a Sinjar refugee, who has more scars than we can imagine during a lifetime – let alone on the shoulders of a…

What drives people to find success in their careers can be traced to many factors. Sometimes it’s as simple as seeking a loved one’s approval….

While many filmmakers choose to romanticize childhood in their work, it takes an adept hand to craft a story that draws out the suffering and…

Haifaa al-Mansour is one of the most significant figures in cinema in Saudi Arabia. She is praised and vilified for her films which encourage discussion…

Abbey is competing with Jesus for the heart of her mother, at least she thinks she is. This hilarious film about a second-generation immigrant child…

Operation Ganga was an evacuation of medical students and other citizens of India from Ukraine after Russia invaded in 2022. Over 18,000 students were assisted…

At one point in this film the words “estamos a tiempo” appear, which roughly translate to “in due time.” Water Ashes is very much about…

In the history of unusual subjects that create romantic couples, the story of this real-life volcanologist couple, Katia and Maurice Krafft, is towards the top…