Papiro & Mint is back to talk about one of the most exciting moments of the year: film festival season! This will be the first time I’ll be attending the São Paulo International Film Festival in person since 2019 due to the Coronavirus pandemic, while I’ll also be watching many titles online since the festival […]
São Paulo International Film Festival | 2021
These are twenty documentaries that you shouldn’t miss at the 12th Taiwan International Documentary Festival which will take place from April 30th until May 9th, 2021 in Taipei, Taiwan.
20 Documentaries you shouldn’t miss at the 12th Taiwan International Documentary Festival (Part 1)
Inside the Red Brick Wall will open the 12th Taiwan International Documentary Festival which will take place from April 30th until May 9th, 2021 in Taipei, Taiwan.
12th Taiwan International Documentary Festival – Opening Film
Hello friends! Here’s something you may not know but I love watching shorts- especially groups of shorts. There’s something satisfying about watching a little morsel of storytelling whether it be animated, live action or documentary. The only problem is sometimes the Oscar nominated shorts can be tough to get a-hold of but this year they […]
[REVIEWS] Oscar Nominated Shorts
We present the list of winners of the Hong Kong International Film Festival that took place in-theatres and online from April 1st – 12th (2021) in Hong Kong.
45th Hong Kong International Film Festival – Firebird Awards 2021
These are twenty-six Asian short films you shouldn’t miss at the 38th Busan International Short Film Festival which will take place from April 21st – 26th (2021) in Busan, Korea.
26 Asian short films you shouldn’t miss at the 38th Busan International Short Film Festival (Part 1)
Keep Rolling by Man Lim-chung will open 16th Osaka Asian Film Festival (Japan) which will take place on screen from March 5th – 14th and online from February 28th – March 20th (selected films from previous editions).
16th Osaka Asian Film Festival – Opening Film 2021
Hello readers! It is the end of the day at that means time for another one of my Sundance Film Festival viewing logs. Here I give my mini reviews for every film I saw at the festival. Yesterday I gave all positives but today was more mixed. Here goes! Ailey This film is a documentary […]
The Greater Western New York Film Critics Association announced their nominees for the best of 2020 earlier today. The winners will be announced on December 31st so, again, you’ve got some time to consider these nominees. The Small Axe films are probably not going to be eligible and I’m Thinking of Ending Things will probably […]
Here Are the 2020 Greater Western New York Film Critics Association Nominations!
‘’Kuşa bir yuva, örümceğe bir ağ, insana dostluk.’’ William Blake’in Cennet ile Cehennemin Evliliği adlı eserinin “Cehennem Meselleri” kısmından yapılan yukarıdaki alıntı, Kelly Reichardt‘ın 70. Berlin Film Festivali’nde ana yarışmada yer alan First Cow filminin açılışında karşılıyor izleyenlerini. Reichardt’ın sinemasında nostaljik bir yolculuğa çıkan yapıt, iki dost üzerinden, yönetmenin alışıldık nahif diliyle kurduğu anlatısını; kapitalizm ve…
Sinema, müzik ve daha birçok sanat dalıyla ilgili ses getiren etkinlikleri programından hiç eksik etmeyen İstanbul İtalyan Kültür Merkezi, “İtalyan Sinemasıyla Buluşma” başlıklı film festivali için kapılarını 11. kez takipçilerine açıyor. Bu sene pandemi nedeniyle ilk kez online olarak düzenlenen festival, 27 Kasım – 3 Aralık 2020 tarihleri arasında gerçekleşecek. Bu da elbette söz konusu […]
İtalyan Kültür Merkezi Film Festivali Başladı! (27 Kasım – 3 Aralık 2020)
Its taken a while to wrap up the Festival du Nouveau Cinema coverage but we’re in the final double feature. Both a romance in their own regards is a Canadian film, Sin La Habana and a French movie, Poissonsexe. Both having a romance wrapped up in highlighting a bigger plot and both carrying a different […]
FNC 2020: Sin La Habana (2020) & Poissonsexe (2020)
Dirty God is the story of Jade, a twenty-something mom living in London, who is recovering from a vicious acid attack that left her permanently scarred. We meet Jade late in the story — after her attack and her time in the hospital — and therefore focus on her road of emotional recovery. Vicky Knight […]
‘Dirty God’ Is an Intimate Look Into a Burn Victim’s Life
Goethe Institut ile İstanbul Film Festivali’nin işbirliğiyle düzenlenen “Kino 2020: Alman Filmleri Türkiye’de” seçkisi dahilinde olan, geçtiğimiz günlerde filmonline.iksv.org adresinden izleme fırsatını bulduğumuz Das Vorspiel (Seçmeler) adlı filmden bahsedeceğiz bu yazımızda. Oyunculuk kariyerinden sapıp yönetmen olan Ina Weisse’nın 2019 yapımı bu filmi idealist bir keman öğretmenini konu ediniyor ve bu öğretmeni de, iki festivalden “En […]
Gerçekleştirilememiş Hayaller, Keskin Hırslar ve Yıkım: DAS VORSPIEL
Pablo Larraín begins Ema with an indelible image: fire engulfs a traffic light in the middle of a street, slowly making its way down from the red light to the green light with the titular Ema (Mariana Di Girólamo) looking on, a flamethrower in hand. The film then shifts to a group dance performance in […]
Denver Film Festival 2020 Review: ‘Ema’
THANKS TO UNRESTRICTED VIEW HORROR FILM FESTIVAL 2020! Just a quick post to say thank you to the Unrestricted View Horror Film Festival for screening my short film You Have A New Follower (2020). They screened it online as part of their Little Terrors programme on Tuesday 27th October 2020. Loads of great shorts and […]
THANKS TO UNRESTRICTED VIEW HORROR FILM FESTIVAL 2020!
It’s in a wind-battered 1840s Lyme Regis that we meet Kate Winslet’s Mary Anning. She plies her trade as a palaeontologist, recovering fossils on the shore of the Jurassic Coast, finding solace in her craft. Yet it’s a life of repression that she lives, from her ailing mother who watches her every move, and from […]
Ammonite Review (BFI London Film Festival 2020)
Geçtiğimiz hafta, başlıyor dediğimiz 31. Ankara Film Festivali, dün gece yapılan mütevazı kapanış töreni ile sona erdi. Bu sene festivalde, ister istemez filmlerden çok korona konuştuk. Festivali takip edenler, takip etmeyenler ya da edemeyenler, gelen konuklar ve jüriler, gelemeyen konuklar ve jüriler, salonların ne kadar kalabalık ve güvenli olduğu, hep konuşulan konular arasındaydı. Her film […]
Korona Döneminde Festival Günleri
Scary Mother (Sashishi deda) Georgia (2017) Dir. Ana Urushadze Are writers misunderstood? Is their ability to create people, places, and situations that are wondrously fantastic out of thin air or to allegorise a real event or story into a piece of fiction a sign of inventive genius or a twisted psyche? And why are expressive […]
Freewheeling slacker Kun (Zhou You) is the proud new owner of a smoking, broken-down mess of a Jeep, his spirit animal in vehicular form. Whilst the car is a direct representation of Kun as a person at this moment in his life, the journey that he takes in it also works well as a metaphor […]
Striding Into the Wind Review (BFI London Film Festival 2020)