Tag: Review

There are two types of women in Easter Cove, the small fishing town where Blow the Man Down takes place: the good, honest women who…

When Dubai-based screenwriter and director Hana Kazim was studying business in college, she took a film class that introduced her to The Godfather (1972). Seeing…

An aspiring young poet memory-bound to the grip of a melancholic past, awaiting to unlock the seemingly unreachable doors to success. Hurt by Paradise becomes…

Do not be deceived by the stillness of The Chambermaid, the directorial debut of Mexican filmmaker Lila Avilés. Under its serene takes and silent protagonist,…

Loss of innocence can take many forms. Loss of a parent. Loss of childhood. Loss of autonomy. Loss of control. In Audrey Jean-Baptiste’s short film, Gone Youth, the…

Trigger warning: suicide. First release in 2018, Yulia & Juliet may appear just to be another remake of the classic Romeo & Juliet story by…

Writer-director Thessa Meijer intriguing short film The Walking Fish starts with a dreamy tone, reminiscent of a fable. One day by the sea, a young…

A competitive swimmer wakes up one morning to discover that his black cat has changed into a woman in Aquaphobe, a short film that doesn’t…

Trigger warning: rape. It has been a few years since I first watched Jessica M. Thompson’s The Light of the Moon, but I was immediately…

Note: The following movie review addresses the topic of rape depicted on film. Reader discretion is advised. French film multi-hyphenate Anne Thorens’ Diagonal, an official…

Witty, thought-provoking, and wild, the animated short Normal springs its main character from an existential crisis, only to have his solution backfire. It’s a trippy…

Her parents’ ambitions and ill-fitting college programme turn a young Chinese woman’s university life into a series of challenges and obstacles, tackling social differences and…

Amanda Valle is an artist who is now based in the US but was born in the city of Santo Domingo. Back in the Island…

I was initially drawn to this short by the title. Being a fan of the opera ‘Carmen’, I was intrigued to see whether this would…