Isabel Herguera, the Dream of a Master Animator
Spanish animator, author and producer Isabel Herguera bings her first feature to DOK L — a masterfully evocative work on feminism and women’s lives, ‘Sultana’s Dream’.
Read MorePosted by Deborah Young | Oct 8, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, Leipzig 2023 |
Spanish animator, author and producer Isabel Herguera bings her first feature to DOK L — a masterfully evocative work on feminism and women’s lives, ‘Sultana’s Dream’.
Read MorePosted by Deborah Young | Sep 29, 2023 | Festivals, San Sebastian 2023 |
Lively characters get involved in a farcical church course designed to rewire gays in the otherwise staid ‘Toll’ (‘Pedagio’), a story about coping with poverty and ignorance in remote Brazil.
Read MorePosted by Deborah Young | Sep 28, 2023 | Festivals, San Sebastian 2023 |
In equal parts fiercely amusing and roundly desolating, Robin Campillo’s ‘Red Island’, an offbeat look at the end of French colonialism in Madagascar, is a crowd-pleaser in San Sebastian’s Official Selection.
Read MorePosted by Deborah Young | Sep 27, 2023 | Festivals, San Sebastian 2023 |
Celebrating the natural cycles of life in women’s ever-changing bodies, Jaione Camborda’s second feature ‘The Rye Horn’ is a moving period drama that touches on abortion laws in 1971 Spain.
Read MorePosted by Deborah Young | Sep 26, 2023 | Festivals, San Sebastian 2023 |
Emmanuelle Devos plays the complicit wife of the famous lawyer and closet pedophile Daniel Auteuil in Joachim Lafosse’s slow-moving family drama ‘A Silence’.
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