ALLENSWORTH
James Benning’s latest, bowing in the Berlin Forum, offers a powerful comment on racial politics in the U.S. in a static-shot portrait of the first settlement to be founded and governed by African-Americans.
Read MorePosted by Clarence Tsui | Feb 23, 2023 | Berlin, Berlin 2023, Featured, Festivals |
James Benning’s latest, bowing in the Berlin Forum, offers a powerful comment on racial politics in the U.S. in a static-shot portrait of the first settlement to be founded and governed by African-Americans.
Read MorePosted by Clarence Tsui | Feb 22, 2023 | Berlin, Berlin 2023, Festivals |
South Korean auteur Hong Sang-soo teases all the humour and melancholy out of his young cast in a comedy of awkward manners, bowing in the Berlin sidebar Encounters.
Read MorePosted by Clarence Tsui | Feb 21, 2023 | Berlin, Berlin 2023, Festivals |
Japanese director Yui Kiyohara’s second feature combines delicate human drama, mesmerising imagery and a reflection on personal and social history.
Read MorePosted by Clarence Tsui | Feb 19, 2023 | Berlin, Berlin 2023, Festivals |
Vlad Petri’s visually captivating yet structurally slippery found-footage film reflects on the suppression faced by young, idealistic Romanian and Iranian women under self-avowed “revolutionary” regimes.
Read MorePosted by Clarence Tsui | Jan 24, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, Sundance, Sundance 2023 |
Danish documentary filmmaker Lin Alluna’s feature-length debut veers away from the political to reveal the internal conflicts tearing at the Greenland-born, Denmark-educated and Canada-based Inuit civil rights activist Aaju Peter.
Read More