Carmen Gray - The Film Verdict

The Landscape and the Fury

Posted by Carmen Gray | Apr 14, 2024 | Festivals, Visions du Réel |

The Balkan landscape is a witness to cycles of time and displacement in Nicole Vögele’s atmospheric, compelling and very human doc, winner of the top prize at Visions du Réel.

Kamay

Posted by Carmen Gray | Apr 14, 2024 | Featured, Festivals, Visions du Réel |

Haunting and multi-layered, this is a stunning debut doc on death, female resistance and knowledge in the mountains of Afghanistan.

Fragments Of Ice

Posted by Carmen Gray | Apr 13, 2024 | Festivals, Featured, Visions du Réel |

Maria Stoianova draws on her figure-skater father’s ‘80s and ‘90s VHS archive in a poignant debut doc on a Ukraine caught between the illusions of two systems.

Realm of Satan

Posted by Carmen Gray | Apr 12, 2024 | Festivals, Nyon, Visions du Réel |

Scott Cummings explores the Church of Satan through theatrical vignettes in his inventive, irreverent documentary portrait of a maligned American outsider culture.

Grey Bees

Posted by Carmen Gray | Feb 1, 2024 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2024 |

Dmytro Moiseiev’s laconic portrait of a solitary beekeeper with an evolving political consciousness in the “grey zone” of Donetsk is sage and affecting.

Author: Carmen Gray

The Landscape and the Fury

Kamay

Fragments Of Ice

Realm of Satan

Grey Bees