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With Friends Like These
In very few cases, the addiction themes were more amusing than they were in this short film, ' With Friends Like These '. Perhaps, this fact happens because in a world obsessed with small dramas, with traumatic micro-uni
Film reviewBeside Me
Tedy Necula’s debut feature film is one of the most intimate and profound movies we’ve seen in the past year. Starting up as an average day at the metro, the narrative transcends very fast to the plot of a Julio Cort
Film reviewYuna's Lunch
Yuna, a young girl struggling to make meets end financially, has an unusual job: she makes sandwiches and delivers them to her customers, who she then spends some time with. Some talk to her about everyday fears and frus
Film reviewTime Left
If the possibility of knowing exactly how much time there is left until the end of your life, would you choose to have access to this piece of information, or would you rather be kept in the dark about it and live your l
Film reviewSaint Hubert
The thick forests of Eastern Belgium, and a thorough search by police and local authorities – this is the contrasting image with which Saint Hubert starts. From the very first frame, it beautifully portrays the purity of
Film reviewRadiance
Losing someone who has always been at your side, from the very beginning of your life, is completely devastating. It leaves an emptiness in one’s soul that can never be filled by a substitute, no matter how good it is. W
Film reviewLonely Souls of Microbes
Mikhail Romanovskiy’s film is an exploration of the human character and its ever-present loneliness, even in circumstances where its presence might seem very unlikely. It portrays humane traits, flaws and the changing na
Film reviewA Lucky Day
A man who parks his trailer in the desert, just off the main road, wakes up in the morning, ready for a usual day. He is surprised, however, when he finds money falling from the sky. An upward glance significantly improv
Film reviewOlvidadizo
A woman walks by a rocky coastal area in broad daylight, all alone and not a soul around her. Suddenly, she gets hit in the head with a rock and falls to the ground, dead. Soon after, we are re-introduced to her, but in
Film reviewEden
The title chosen for this Portuguese short film is largely antithetical in nature, as it chronicles a repressive society instead of an ideal one. It is set in Portugal in 1974, the year when the right-wing dictatorship k
Film reviewBia
Building a good life in run-down suburbs of large metropolitan areas is never easy. It is a vicious circle that the more you try to escape, the more you get drawn into and the further away from change you find yourself.
Film reviewKlippers
Ofu Obekpa’s ‘ Klippers ’ can be seen as a 2017 representation of ‘Die Hard’, where the anti-hero that became the hero has to come up with a plan to get out of a difficult situation that might cost him and the people aro
Film reviewDot.
Before watching the music video under scrutiny, we knew nothing about Aditi Dot, the teenage Indian singer who became quite a sensation after uploading a video of her performing a song that she wrote and composed. The fi
Film reviewMommy Heist
Three single mums, all coming from different socio-economic facets, team up together to pull off a heist at a jewellery store – securing a non-negligible amount of money while also exacting personal revenge in the proces
Film reviewFireproven
Miska Karioja's ' Fireproven - Shine ' is the first video single from Finnish melodic death metal band Fireproven’s debut album. Apart from being a good complimenting medium to the excellent music it accompanies, and imp
Film reviewExpiration Date
Everything that we can virtually imagine has an expiration date… doesn’t it? Any product or object will once become broken beyond repair, every experience or state of spirit is transient, and at one point one factor or a
Film reviewA Trickster Tale
The concept of mortality, when related to all living things, humans and animals alike, is what leads to the birth and proliferation of a survival instinct. They are only around for a limited time, and a step in the wrong
Film reviewThe Red Case
Sarah, a nurse in her 30s with a passion for jazz music, encounters someone who strikes her as a very peculiar man, while going to work one morning. Later, she meets the exact same person, but this time as a patient in t
Film reviewScreen Cowboy
For most of us, childhood is associated with an overwhelming feeling of safety and security. It’s often a mental return to simpler times, before we had to worry about paying for our education, taxes or working for a livi
Film reviewGenius Loci
‘ Genius Loci ’ is the movie of the perfect silence that delivers more emotions than any word could do. Pascal Griesshammer’s feature combines a wide variety of techniques used in literature and in cinematography to crea