Silent Nights An immigrant lives on the streets of Denmark, out of luck and out of options, but still determined to send money back to his family in Ghana. In a place he travelled to believing it was “the best city in the world”, we watch him encount …Read more
James Sadwith’s smart and touching Coming Through the Rye arrives with a simultaneously promising and dubious premise: a misunderstood teenager in 1960s America goes searching for JD Salinger to get his permission to play Holden Caulfield in a stage …Read more
Flor (Adriana Barraza) spends her days considering, and often declining, welfare applications in a bland government office, and her nights watching TV with her cat. She seems to both take great pride in her job, and some pleasure in finding arbitrary …Read more
A town frozen in perpetual mourning after a devasting natural disaster; a priest trying to coax them back to life without losing their favour; a lonely young man in need of direction but unable to follow his peers to the big city. There is a compelli …Read more
An ex-professor lives alone in a glorified container in an unpopulated island. He is blind, with only empty beaches and an extensive, carefully curated, shell collection to keep him company. He appears perfectly content in his isolation until, one da …Read more
Blood, belly buttons, umbilical chords and milk – in many forms – run through Maya Vitkova’s striking feature debut Viktoria, alongside archival footage charting the rise and fall of communism in Europe, and plenty of 80s house plants.These corporeal …Read more
Asghar Farhadi’s Fireworks Wednesday is, as would be expected, a beautiful, delicate and keenly observed film. It follows Roohi, a wide-eyed bride-to-be, as she gets an education on marital conflict and human complexity on the last day of the Iranian …Read more
Robert Carlyle’s directorial debut is a colorful, saturated black comedy that gives a sharp British ensemble some giddily unflattering characters to play with. Titular Barney (Carlyle) is a sad-sack Glasgow barber with no real goals, ambition or life …Read more
The 2016 Oscar Nominated Live Action Short Films take on a range of conflicts both political and personal. From observations on life in war zones to deeply personal journeys of triumph and destruction, the five nominated filmmakers have plenty to say …Read more
Irreverent British auteur Peter Greenaway takes on Soviet montage legend Sergei Eisenstein in an expressionist imagining of Eisenstein’s trip to Mexico, but the results are disappointingly bland. Officially, Eisenstein was gathering footage for a Mex …Read more
