Strange Neighbors
The meditative wordless documentary, Strange Neighbors, explores the flow of life on a nature-rich island in the River Elbe and the machine of massive industry that otherwise dominates the waterway.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 17, 2026 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2026 |
The meditative wordless documentary, Strange Neighbors, explores the flow of life on a nature-rich island in the River Elbe and the machine of massive industry that otherwise dominates the waterway.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Aug 18, 2026 | Festivals, Sarajevo 2026 |
Personal ambition, pill dependency and a chaotic family life make for compelling drama in Rabbit Don’t Run, a drama about a provincial footballer clinging onto a dying career.
Read MorePosted by Adham Youssef | Nov 1, 2025 | Leipzig 2025, Festivals |
Ron Rothschild’s self-interrogating documentary ‘A Jewish Problem’ weaves his Jewish Israeli-German family memory into a fearless meditation on how Jewish trauma, European guilt, and Palestinian erasure continue to mirror one another.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 12, 2024 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2024 |
A doctor goes on a dreamlike odyssey into sexual temptation in Traumnovelle, a new adaption of Arthur Schnitzler’s 1926 novella, which has an archness fitting its absurdity.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Feb 23, 2024 | Festivals, Berlinale 2024, Verdict Shorts |
A filmmaker explores her struggles with motherhood and artistic stimulus through a correspondence and a short film about birdwatching in That’s All from Me, a deft epistolary short.
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