Reviews

“Maybe the world needs more people with Asperger’s,” says Greta Thunberg. And maybe the world needs more filmmakers like Nathan Grossman, who has made a movie that everyone should watch.

Narrated by avant-pop pioneer Laurie Anderson, Rovner’s film presents the women who embraced electronic music and machines, and transformed the way we produce and listen to music today.

In the final part of his Sicilian trilogy, Michele Pennetta shows the economic/familial similarities between two marginalized characters sharing the sun-scorched island, a teenage boy and a young Nigerian immigrant.

Two people from very different backgrounds, finding each other despite social, religious and societal obstacles - a universal message delivered in a personal and unique story.

Plastic surgeon/artist Dr Han is the personification of the self-improvement phenomenon - a fascinating figure in a compelling soap movie about vanity gone wild.

A harrowing one-hour seven-minute documentary that went criminally underreported by film journalists when it premiered at the Berlinale, and whose images have every right to become iconic.

In My Own Landscapes Antoine Chapon has created a film about one man’s form of escapism, a virtual world he helped create to prepare soldiers for the horrors of war.

The Soviet Union is not dead – it’s alive and kicking in Magnitogorsk, an unsightly town that resembles a fake film set, but one populated by some very real people.

In the final part of his Sicilian trilogy, Michele Pennetta shows the economic/familial similarities between two marginalized characters sharing the sun-scorched island, a teenage boy and a young Nigerian immigrant.

Beautiful, experimental and boundary-testing documentary entertains with a strange double protagonist and a washed-up white whale.