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Fung Ying Cheng
Apr 5, 2021
Manasanamaha [Deepak Reddy, India, 2020]
The film follows Surya (Viraj Ashwin) who recounts three relationships from his past...
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Sally Roberts
Apr 4, 2021
Rio [Zhenia Kazankina, Russia/Finland, 2019]
From Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho [USA, 1960] to The Florida Project [Sean Baker, USA, 2017], motels have long dominated American cinema....
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Sam Briggs
Apr 4, 2021
Reclaiming the Negative [Mike Beech, UK/South Korea, 2020]
Since the Korean war ended in 1953, approximately 31,000 North Koreans have defected, taking the perilous journey across the southern...
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Sally Roberts
Apr 4, 2021
Bulldog [Kieran Stringfellow, UK, 2020]
What comes to mind when you think of bulldogs? Faded tattoos stretched across grizzled biceps, multiple-ringed hands wrapped around...
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Sally Roberts
Apr 4, 2021
Ghost of a Chance [Manes Duerr, USA, 2019]
Never give up on your dreams. Many of us are told this repeatedly from a young age well into adulthood. Following a soon-to-be father on...
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Sam Briggs
Apr 4, 2021
Old Flame – A Super 8 Story [Spencer Hetherington & Jesse Ricottone, Canada, 2020]
Though quick to ignite, once over, relationships can be difficult to extinguish; old flames destined to continue burning long into the...
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Sally Roberts
Apr 4, 2021
Fancy a Cuppa? [Lotte Cassidy, UK, 2020]
Scented gel pens, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air [USA, 1990-96] and unwrapping what seemed like endless Fruit Winders, while not universal,...
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Sam Briggs
Apr 4, 2021
Hollow Tooth [Samuel Kaperski, France, 2019]
Long after the bullets have stopped, the torment of warfare lives on relentlessly in the minds of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)...
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Hope Smith
Apr 4, 2021
Rebirth of Venus [Robin Noorda, Netherlands, 2021]
When poetry collides with imagery, we can get nothing short of a work of art. Rebirth of Venus uses a poem that is striking and combines...
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Kiran McCann
Apr 4, 2021
It’s Just Me [Jared Moossy, USA, 2021]
“Now I’m black, a homosexual lifestyle, and I’m a transgender? That’s like three strikes, you out!”
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