I’m Still Here’s affection for its subjects, though tender, is largely hagiographic.
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Ariane Louis-Seize‘s Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (winner of the Director’s Award at Giornate degli Autori section in Venice Film Festival last year) leads all nominations at the Prix Iris (aka Quebec Oscars) with a total of twenty-two including Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best First Film, and seven acting nominations however it’s fiercest competition might come from Simple comme Sylvain by Monia Chokri which premiered at last year’s Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section. Also known as “The Nature of Love,” Chokri’s third feature received fourteen nominations in all with Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Director, and four acting nominations.… Read the rest
Women are not believed. This has been true for decades (if not centuries) and it has allowed men to perpetrate terrible crimes, almost in plain sight, without remorse or consequences. I realise this is something of a blanket statement (yes, I know it is not all men). But it is enough men, that even when we do scream (literally or figuratively) at the top of our lungs, too often nothing is done to prevent further violence. We’re also aware of the expectations upon us to behave certain ways both in private and public, and how that puts us in grave danger. Anna Kendrick’s directorial debut Woman of the Hour melds these two threads together in a true crime story. Anyone with access to Netflix or…
For a certain kind of cinephile (e.g. me) more than a decade’s been spent wondering about Julia Loktev. The brilliant director behind Day Night Day Night and The Loneliest Planet has been largely off-the-grid since the latter’s release in 2011, despite occasional interviews revealing work on a new film; it eventually seemed best to make […]
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The 49th edition of the festival was a showcase of more liberal sentiments and artistic styles.
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The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire, the feature debut from artist and filmmaker Madeleine Hunt-Ehrlich, aims to foreground its primary literary material and historical context, but instead directs more attention to its oneiric touches and environmental phenomena––the “wind in the trees,” so to speak. The title figure, together with her more widely known husband Aimé Césaire, […]
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A preview of this year’s event.
How many times in a filmmaker’s life do they get the chance to do something that makes no sense to anyone but them?
September in the Netherlands means that the Camera Japan Festival is visiting again, first in Rotterdam and a week later in Amsterdam. Primarily it’s a film festival, but music and food always have an important role as well. Often there are workshops tied in to several of the titles playing there, for example a whiskey tasting event will accompany a drama about Japanese craft whiskeys. It’s therefore a shame that the harbor of Rotterdam doesn’t have any pearl oysters in it, because Polish director Chris Ludz’ gentle-with-a-bite Japanese family drama All the Songs We Never Sang is good enough to have a pearl diving event attached to it. In it, we follow 17-year-old Natsumi, who travels to a Japanese island community to live with her…
Franco-Moroccan filmmaker Sofia Alaoui (behind the brilliant Sundance Grand Prize-winning short So What If the Goats Die (2020) and the equally mystical supernatural bowl of soup feature in 2023’s Animalia) is among the half dozen invited guests to the Résidence of the Festival de Cannes — essentially the festival sets up burgeoning filmmakers to set up shop at an apartment building in Paris to workshop their latest projects with industry folk.
Other invited folks bunking in the Paris staycay incvlude Australian filmmaker (based in Berlin) Rudolf Fitzgerald-Leonard (who had his short shown in the Directors’ Fortnight), Colombian filmmaker Theo Montoya of Anhell69 fame, Lithuanian filmmaker Eglė Razumaitė whose last short (Ootidé) was in the running for the short film Palme d’Or, India’s Diwa Shah (she had her feature debut at the 2023 San Sebastian Intl.… Read the rest