Category: The Festival Verdict

Spotlight

Lost Flowers

by Ben Nicholson | Jan 19, 2022 | Festivals, Morelia, Spotlight, Thessaloniki, Transilvania | 0 |

In his diaristic portrait of grief during the isolation of lockdown, Fabrizio Maltese has crafted a personal documentary full of universal poignancy.

Reviews

Featured

Shabu

by Oris Aigbokhaevbolo | Jan 13, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, IDFA | 0

Through its boisterous main character, Shamira Raphaëla’s 'Shabu' represents a break from the clichéd images of Black experience in the West.

Playground

by Oris Aigbokhaevbolo | Jan 12, 2022 | Featured, Oscar shortlist | 0
Ascension

by Stephen Dalton | Jan 8, 2022 | Featured | 0
Petite Solange

by Jordan Mintzer | Jan 4, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, Locarno | 0
Communion

by Jay Weissberg | Dec 31, 2021 | Featured, Festivals, Red Sea | 0
The Exam

by Deborah Young | Dec 25, 2021 | Featured, Festivals, Karlovy Vary, Red Sea | 0
Lamb

by Stephen Dalton | Dec 19, 2021 | Cannes, Featured, Festivals, Oscar shortlist | 0

The Festival Verdict

Red Sea 2021: The Verdict

by Deborah Young | Dec 19, 2021

Saudi Arabia takes a big step forward with an international culture event in Jeddah that, for all the glitches, showcased the modern and rapidly changing face of its society.

Cairo International Film Festival 2021: The Verdict

by Jay Weissberg | Dec 9, 2021
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2021: The Verdict

by Oris Aigbokhaevbolo | Dec 1, 2021
Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2021: The Verdict

by Stephen Dalton | Nov 30, 2021
Thessaloniki 2021: The Verdict

by Jay Weissberg | Nov 17, 2021

Red Sea

An immersive, sensorial plunge into a young Iraqi refugee’s desperation as he evades capture by anti-immigration vigilantes in a Bulgarian forest, filmed with taut suspense and anchored by a stand-out performance from Adam Ali.

Rupture

by Jay Weissberg | Jan 5, 2022
Huda’s Salon

by Jay Weissberg | Dec 17, 2021
Radiograph of a Family

by Deborah Young | Dec 14, 2021
Hit the Road

by Deborah Young | Dec 11, 2021

Cairo

No Land’s Man

by Deborah Young | Jan 11, 2022

Nawazuddin Siddiqui plays a pathological liar whose romance with an Australian girl unveils a horrifying backstory of racism in Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s genre-bending pleaser.