Idyllic
Dutch writer-director Aaron Rookus explores the funny side of death, depression and existential despair in his witty, well-crafted tragicomedy ‘Idyllic’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Feb 1, 2025 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2025 |
Dutch writer-director Aaron Rookus explores the funny side of death, depression and existential despair in his witty, well-crafted tragicomedy ‘Idyllic’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Jan 31, 2025 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2025 |
Colombian writer-director Gala del Sol’s stylish debut feature ‘Rains Over Babel’ is an audacious, ambitious, kaleidoscopic carnival of queerness loosely based on Dante’s ‘Inferno’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Jan 30, 2025 | Featured, Festivals, Rotterdam 2025 |
Two troubled teenage sisters share a spookily close bond in actor turned director Ariane Labed’s patchy but atmospheric feature debut ‘September Says’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Jan 29, 2025 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2025 |
Drawing on memories from his own family history, Sardinian director Giovanni Columbu combines ancient and modern animation techniques in his strikingly beautiful period drama ‘Balentes’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Jan 25, 2025 | Festivals, Sundance 2025 |
A Russian high school teacher becomes an unlikely undercover activist in ‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’, an insider documentary about the poisonous spread of Kremlin pro-war propaganda.
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