This one will stick in your mind whether you love it or hate it. It’s like Fish Tank meets Kajillionaire.
Continue readingHoard (2023)
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Reinas (2024)
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The title means ‘queens’ and we are immersed in a fractured family in Peru in the 70s. It’s the start of 10 years of dictatorship, at a time where inflation is doubling overnight and there is increasing unrest and violence in the streets.
Continue readingIntercepted (2024)
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I found this documentary hard going. If I’d seen it at the start of the festival and less tired, I might have been awed by the technique of overlapping footage with disconnected but meaningful audio.
Continue readingBlack Box Diaries (2024)
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I don’t think I’ve ever seen a documentary quite like this before, where the subject is the filmmaker and the act of making the film is one of such courage.
Continue readingToll (2023)
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Like Crossing, Toll looks at queerness through the eyes of the non-queer family members who alienate and marginalise them.
Continue readingCidade; Campo (2024)
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Juliana Rojas likes to blend contemporary Brazilian social critique with the surreal and supernatural, as evidenced by her queer werewolf musical (Good Manners (2018)).
Continue readingA New Kind of Wilderness (2024)
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This one is a bit of a weepy. I went in thinking it was about off grid living and homeschooling – raising children in nature – but it’s actually as much about grief.
Continue readingSweet Dreams (2023)
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You will understand the irony of the title in the closing scenes of this acerbic, stylised allegory of colonisation.
Continue readingLike My Brother (2024)
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Santosh (2024)
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Santosh (Shahana Goswami) is a young Indian widow cast adrift by the death of her policeman husband. Her in-laws hate her so her best option, as a woman, is to take a compassionate position as a police woman, symbolically replacing her husband.
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