Workers’ Wings
Ilir Hasanaj’s deeply empathetic documentary ‘Workers’ Wings’, is centred on manual labourers who have suffered workplace injuries, is a tender and intimate marvel.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Feb 2, 2024 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2024, Verdict Shorts |
Ilir Hasanaj’s deeply empathetic documentary ‘Workers’ Wings’, is centred on manual labourers who have suffered workplace injuries, is a tender and intimate marvel.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Feb 1, 2024 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2024 |
Using the aesthetics of home video, with 78 Days Emilija Gasic crafts a poignant coming-of-age drama set amidst the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia by NATO.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Jan 31, 2024 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2024, Verdict Shorts |
In the spritely and tactile essayistic ode to a heroine of Greek myth Daphne was a torso ending in leaves, Catriona Gallagher reflects on the legacy of an ancient arboreal transformation.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Jan 31, 2024 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2024 |
The traumas of Cambodia’s past stretch their icy fingers into the present in Tenement, a deeply unsettling psychological horror set in a rundown Khmer-era housing block.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Jan 29, 2024 | Cine Verdict, Festivals, Rotterdam 2024 |
Veredicto: ‘La historia se escribe de noche’ es un retrato inusual de los apagones que han azotado a Cuba durante los últimos años y un ejercicio exquisito de atmósfera cinematográfica
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