The Innocents
German Tejada updates Oswaldo Reynoso into contemporary Lima in The Innocents, a grungy coming-of-age drama that explores burgeoning sexuality and youthful alienation.
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Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 12, 2025 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2025 |
German Tejada updates Oswaldo Reynoso into contemporary Lima in The Innocents, a grungy coming-of-age drama that explores burgeoning sexuality and youthful alienation.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Feb 3, 2025 | Festivals, Rotterdam 2025 |
A mother unadvisedly leaves her two young sons home alone in Don’t Leave the Kids Alone chaotic but largely entertaining Mexican haunted house horror.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 14, 2024 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2024 |
The tale of Maximilian of Habsburg and Charlotte of Belgium is reimagined in A History of Love and War, an anarchic, absurdist black comedy about colonisation and corruption in a fantastical Mexico.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 13, 2024 | Festivals, Oldenburg 2024, Verdict Shorts |
Two young children are left to find their own way when their father commits suicide in Diego Gaxiola’s poignant magical realist short, Nostalgia of a (Still) Alive Heart.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Jun 29, 2024 | Festivals, Karlovy Vary 2024 |
Viggo Mortensen’s tender and offbeat drama, The Dead Don’t Hurt, is led by a magnetic Vicky Krieps and cultivates something beautiful amongst the arid plains and rocky outcroppings of the old west.
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