A couple of cinematic hours in a remote, Siberian village is never a bad thing. I still remember the exquisite Ága (2018), an intensely beautiful exploration of silence and subsistence that immersed you in a life that seems far removed from what we think of as Russian culture.
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My heart was full after spending two hours with Amy Ray and Emily Saliers a.k.a. the Indigo Girls.
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This thoroughly enjoyable schlock horror game show pastiche is, as my MIFF buddy Not a Sexy Vampire aptly calls it, “the Don Lane show gone to hell.”
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An insubstantial musical bubble about the vagaries of love set in an 80s stage set shopping mall.
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I kept thinking this romcom was ‘so French’ as it eschewed all the typical tropes in favour of a madcap, wry cynicism about love. But of course, it’s French-Canadian. Sorry!
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Amat Escalante’s Lost in the Night feels like an amalgam of Mexican films I have seen over the past few years.
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Mohamed Kordofani (in an accomplished debut feature) teaches us about the political and social issues in Sudan in the early years of the Millennium through the eyes of two women on opposite sides of the conflict.
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Set predominantly within an apartment, Bong Joon-ho protege Jason Yu’s ‘not really a horror’ hits the right balance between creepiness and drama.
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I lived through the rise and fall of BlackBerry but, not being an early adopter, it barely touched my life.
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