Deborah Young - The Film Verdict

World, Northern Hemisphere

Posted by Deborah Young | Apr 20, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Spotlight, Tokyo |

Hossein Tehrani’s gently melancholy first feature about poor farm laborers, which won Tokyo’s Asian Future competition, reveals a strong new Iranian voice.

A Taste of Whale

Posted by Deborah Young | Apr 16, 2022 | CPH:DOX, Featured, Festivals |

The age-old Faroe Islands tradition of slaughtering pilot whales for their tasty meat gets pushback from animal rights activists in a documentary that raises more complex questions.

AWARDS CORNER

Posted by Deborah Young | Mar 29, 2022 | Festivals, Thessaloniki Documentary, Uncategorized |

Golden Alexander Award – International competition A HOUSE MADE OF SPLINTERS (Denmark-Finland-Sweden-Ukraine) by Simon Lereng Wilmont Special Jury Award – International competition YOUNG PLATO...

The Locust

Posted by Deborah Young | Mar 23, 2022 | Featured |

Iranian filmmaker Faeze Azizkhani portrays the hazards of making a movie about yourself in a self-referential drama packed with anxiety and irony.

Rhino

Posted by Deborah Young | Mar 7, 2022 | Festivals, New images from Ukraine, Spotlight |

ORIGINALLY REVIEWED SEPT. 13, 2021 Ukrainian activist Oleh Sentsov directs a hard-boiled gangster tale set in the 1990s after the collapse of the Soviet Union, whose over-the-top violence is starkly undermotivated.

Author: Deborah Young

World, Northern Hemisphere

A Taste of Whale

AWARDS CORNER

The Locust

Rhino