Letters from the Silenced Country
Andrei Kutsila’s haunting doc weaves testimony, video footage and animation into an unflinching, politically urgent portrait of life for Belarusian activists hunted by the regime.
Read MorePosted by Carmen Gray | Oct 27, 2026 | Festivals, 2026, Leipzig, Leipzig 2026 |
Andrei Kutsila’s haunting doc weaves testimony, video footage and animation into an unflinching, politically urgent portrait of life for Belarusian activists hunted by the regime.
Read MorePosted by Carmen Gray | Sep 8, 2026 | Festivals, 2026, VENICE 2026 |
Proving their rambunctious, winning formula is a snug fit for dark times, Sophie Fiennes and philosopher comrade Slavoj Zizek plumb how our world got to where it is, through iconic movies.
Read MorePosted by Carmen Gray | Sep 6, 2026 | 2026, Festivals, VENICE 2026 |
Sergei Loznitsa’s Imperium is a mesmeric, sprawling, sparely unadorned journey through the disparate corners of an imagined state monolith that never really existed.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 1, 2025 | Festivals, VENICE 2025, Verdict Shorts |
Mortality is on the mind in Charlie Kaufman’s contemplative and illusory short, How to Shoot a Ghost – an enveloping, chimeric memento mori.
Read MorePosted by Ben Nicholson | Aug 29, 2025 | Festivals, VENICE 2025, Verdict Shorts |
Said Zagha’s pulsating neo-noir probes at the dark consequences of being pushed to breaking point in Coyotes, a genre-inflected Palestinian short.
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