A Little Life
Park Soo-ah and Kang Hye-won vividly evoke the confusion and grief of recently orphaned kids in Kim Yong-cheon’s ‘A Little Life’, one of two recent productions funded by the Jeonju Cinema Project.
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Author: Clarence Tsui
Left Behind
French-educated Korean filmmaker Jéro Yun teases raw emotions and rapturous performances out of his cast in ‘Left Behind’.
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The Calf Doll
Revolving around an old teacher-turned-farmer’s doomed attempts to make his cow give milk, Ankur Hooda’s ‘The Calf Doll’ is a canny combination of aesthetics, atmosphere and subtle social analysis.
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Dream of Another Summer
Winner of the Next Wave award at CPH:DOX, ‘Dream of Another Summer’ is filmmaker Irene Bartolomé’s poetic, pensive and powerful ode to the traumatized Lebanese capital of Beirut.
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Cesarean Weekend
A boozy party at a seaside villa descends into a delirious explosion of suppressed angst for two slackers and their angst-ridden middle-aged fathers in “Cesarean Weekend”, Iranian indie cinema instigator Mohammad Shirvani’s first feature in 13 years.
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