Stephen Dalton - The Film Verdict

The Eclipse

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Aug 18, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Sarajevo, SARAJEVO 2022 |

The past is a foreign country full of shadowy horrors in ‘The Eclipse’, Serbian director Nataša Urban’s prize-winning documentary about unreliable memory and collective amnesia.

Six Weeks

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Aug 17, 2022 | Festivals, Sarajevo, SARAJEVO 2022 |

A rebellious teenage mother gives her newborn baby daughter up for adoption in Noemi Veronika Szakonyi’s emotionally raw, elegantly shot drama ‘Six Weeks’.

Riders

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Aug 16, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, International Oscars 2024, Sarajevo, SARAJEVO 2022 |

Two unlikely Balkan bikers and a Slavic Pixie Dream Girl share an eventful road trip in ‘Riders’, director Dominik Mencej’s slight but sweet semi-homage to ‘Easy Rider’.

Another Spring

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Aug 15, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Sarajevo |

Serbian director Mladen Kovacevic finds echoes of the current Covid pandemic in Europe’s last smallpox outbreak in his artful, atmospheric found-footage documentary ‘Another Spring’.

Serviam – I Will Serve

Posted by Stephen Dalton | Aug 12, 2022 | Festivals, Locarno, LOCARNO 2022, Sarajevo, Spotlight |

A twisted sister at an all-girl Catholic school pushes her fanatical faith to dangerous extremes in Ruth Mader’s gripping psycho-horror thriller ‘Serviam – I Will Serve’.

Author: Stephen Dalton

The Eclipse

Six Weeks

Riders

Another Spring

Serviam – I Will Serve