Author: Deborah Young

Fifty years after the events recounted in ‘Garage Olimpo’, Marco Bechis’s blood-curdling exposé of torture and murder in Argentina at the hands of a brutal military dictatorship, ‘Back to Buenos Aires’ picks up the shattered pieces of the survivors in an equally dark and intense work.

Ali Asgari’s delicate exploration of living and suffering provides a viewpoint from today’s Iran looking out, in his spot-on snapshot of life in times of uncertainy, ‘A Bit of Light’.

Little Mario and his grouchy granddad (Toni Servillo) spend a ghostly weekend alone together, one that turns into an existential battle of wills in Mario Martone’s slyly amusing adaptation of Domenico Starnone’s novel ‘Trick’ (‘Scherzetto’).