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A Place To Lay Your Head
Edward is in business. And what a business that is! Duane shows up to his place - later than he was actually expected - just to mess up Edward’s work. However, as we get to know the two characters it becomes pretty obvio
Film reviewMud Idols
Let’s face it: TV shows and TV producers sell us a lot of bollocks. I mean, there are many TV shows that are literally so stupid that they would need no attention from us, and still they are so popular and they collect s
Film reviewPowerless
BECAUSE OF THE SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW WE STRONGLY ADVISE TO WATCH THE FILM FIRST. A young woman invites a young man at her place. But what appears to be a date ends up as a ‘revenge session’. It looks like the woman is
Film reviewOnline dating is...
How would you feel about online dating? Is it ok? Is it healthy? Is it fake? Would you try it? What is online dating after all? Well… online dating is a wonderful short documentary by Oscar Nilsson. As the title says it
Film reviewCircles
We start up in life (mostly during youth) feeling independent, challenging and rebelling against convention, against routine, against everything that is not encouraging a free spirit. But when we reach a certain step we
Film reviewDevotion
BECAUSE OF THE SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW WE STRONGLY ADVISE TO WATCH THE FILM FIRST. When a couple’s child accidentally dies they start playing a game which is supposed to help them forget and start over but which instead
Film reviewA Dubious Night
Opening hours for a bar in a small snowy town. Some are already drunk, some find their way to it to melt their bitterness ‘on the rocks’, others just need a place to stage their romance. They know each other and there’s
Film reviewTies That Blind
‘ Ties That Blind ’ is a short black comedy that explores the absurd nature of a hit-man’s relationship with his family - especially with his blind brother - and the way he understands to relate to his brother’s invalidi
Film reviewThe Umbrella Factory
‘ The Umbrella Factory ’ is a very special animation by directors Nick and Lexie Trivundza. In the middle of the night a stranger knocks at the door of three brothers to ask shelter from the rain, something to eat and a
Film reviewMOTH VITALS
BECAUSE OF THE SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW WE STRONGLY ADVISE TO WATCH THE FILM FIRST. ' MOTH VITALS ' is an extremely sensitising, very short documentary film by director Nancy Wyllie. It follows two extreme cases of compas
Film reviewThis Is Your Life
Television is nowadays accompanying us since our beginnings. We grow with TV, we guide our lives according to customs and habits picked up from and created by TV, we 'borrow' our fashion from TV, broadcasted trends and i
Film reviewFrollein Frappé
BECAUSE OF THE SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW WE STRONGLY ADVISE TO WATCH THE FILM FIRST. Dream and reality interweave in this surrealist short film belonging to director Vanessa Aab. The story is that of two characters, Franz
Film reviewThe Fruit of Love, And Chance
BECAUSE OF THE SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW WE STRONGLY ADVISE TO WATCH THE FILM FIRST. The best way to regard Juliette Morice’s film is starting from the title: ‘ The Fruit of Love and Chance ’. So while the film unfolds, th
Film reviewOn the Rocks
BECAUSE OF THE SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW WE STRONGLY ADVISE TO WATCH THE FILM FIRST. In the short documentary ' On the Rocks ', director Amen Jafri follows her husband's personal story as an alcoholic. The title is the fir
Film reviewThe Bench
BECAUSE OF THE SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW WE STRONGLY ADVISE TO WATCH THE FILM FIRST. Solitude is not something to aspire or wish for but is something people learn how to deal with. ' The Bench ' is a story of two character
Film reviewTortoise
BECAUSE OF THE SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW WE STRONGLY ADVISE TO WATCH THE FILM FIRST. There’s a strange way the universe and its unwritten laws contribute to the world’s balance and this time, in director Noviandra Santosa’
Film reviewWithin Four Walls
BECAUSE OF THE SPOILERS IN THIS REVIEW WE STRONGLY ADVISE TO WATCH THE FILM FIRST. Age catches up with us and eventually overtakes us. But what about the changes that we have to accept once we’re growing old? Is it our o
Film reviewIf The Sheep Were Pink
This is one trip to the childhood land that director Djurdjija Radivojevic invites us on. Marco is the only child in the village he lives in. So it is hard for him to be overlooked or to escape from any of the responsibi
Film reviewTemporal
A woman blowing her nose in the background, a monitor on which the internet browser reads: ‘The waking dead, malfunctions in oculus techology’, then the search changes into 'man with van and gravedigger'… At this point y
Film reviewCut and Fried
A man is coming back from the dead to ‘haunt’ his concubine - who actually killed him… This is one crazy yet tasty black comedy. The first thing that strikes you is the situation: the man’s ‘haunting’ is actually done on