MEGAS
Sigurþór Hallbjörnsson, aka Spessi (300 Accordions, 2003; Horse with No Name, 2012), found fame as a photographer but has also... View Article
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INGEBORG HOLM
The Midnight Sun Film Festival’s prime spot this year is reserved for the screening of Victor Sjöström’s (1879-1960) Ingeborg Holm... View Article
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IN THE FOG
If one has seen The Ascent (Voshoždenije, 1977), Larisa Shepitko’s clear-as-ice vision of the Calvary for victims of war, can... View Article
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I HAVE ELECTRIC DREAMS
The hat trick of awards presented to the director and main actors at last year’s Locarno Film Festival promises an... View Article
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HASSISEN KONE – 40 YEARS LATER / DOCUMENTARY
Documentary film by Mika Kaurismäki Hassisen Kone is a rare phenomenon in Finnish popular music. In a short space of... View Article
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FALLEN LEAVES
Holappa (Jussi Vatanen) – a decent, quiet man, even if a bit boozy – meets Ansa (Alma Pöysti) in the... View Article
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EISMAYER
The finest depiction of repressed homosexuality in the military since Beau Travail. That’s some pedigree. While studying at film school,... View Article
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FLICKERING GHOSTS OF LOVES GONE BY
André Bonzel’s first film as the sole director is a personal memoir in which old home movies make up a... View Article
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HAPPINESS COMES AT NINE O’CLOCK
Nikola Tanhofer’s Happiness Comes at Nine o’Clock holds a unique place in Croatian film history as such, for it is... View Article
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FAR FROM HOME
A transitional film linking Sohrab Shahid Saless’s Iranian period with his extended stay in Germany, this was the third film... View Article
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