GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - Olympic Dreams
Olympic Dreams is a poignant and beautiful little film with a believable and sweet core relationship
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - Atlantis
Atlantis is a minimalistic masterpiece that handles its subject matter with grace and a stunning sense of purpose
The Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme: A Banana? At This Time of Night? (Konna yofuke ni banana kayo: Kanashiki jitsuwa)
Tetsu Maeda's A Banana? At This Time of Night? is a fine and content melodrama but could have been so much more
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - Eden
Snævar Sölvason’s Eden is a film that’s been seen and done millions of times before
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - Stories from the Chestnut Woods
Stories from the Chestnut Woods is a leisurely look into a forgotten land and displaced people
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - 5 is the Perfect Number (5 e il numero perfetto)
5 is the Perfect Number revolves around Peppino (Toni Servillo), a retired hitman who is pulled back into the thick of things after his son is murdered in a hit gone wrong
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - Pity the Lovers
Pity the Lovers takes the classic romantic comedy to look into male emotions and how men fall in love
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - The Last Autumn (Síðasta haustið)
The Last Autumn is a profound portrait and a dedication to Iceland’s remaining farmers, a tale of a vanishing way of life
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - The Twentieth Century
Visually provocative without being obnoxious, boundary-pushing without being offensive, satirical without being heavy-handed
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - Standing Up, Falling Down
Standing Up, Falling Down is a slow-cooked comfort food made with such well-worn thematic ingredients as managing aspirations, nurturing relationships and appreciating familial bonds
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - The Painted Bird
Even when The Painted Bird is shot beautifully and the edit from Ludek Hudec is weighted to perfection, there will be only a small minority who will make it through a sitting
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - Pictures From Afghanistan
With the help of director Robbie Fraser, David Pratt through Pictures of Afghanistan, his photographs and storytelling, is able to convince a western audience to confront the realities of warfare in Afghanistan
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - I Want My MTV
Entertaining, but almost completely disposable.
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - Escape From Pretoria
Escape From Pretoria is a content and intimate devised feature that is here to thrill its audience
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - Valley of Souls
Valley of souls is a harrowing and masterful debut, beautifully shot and composed with calculated restraint characteristic of a mature filmmaker.
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - Supernova
Supernova may be rough around the edges, but the breakneck pacing keeps the tension high and the momentum consistent, making for a satisfying watch
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am
Paints a raw and unflinching portrait of author, Toni Morrison that authentically captures the true aesthetic and essence of her literary accomplishments and feels undeniably like Morrison herself
GLASGOW FILM FESTIVAL 2020 - Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway
Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway is an inexplicably effective recreation and unintentional deconstruction of the exploitation genre
FEMSPECTIVES 2020 - Overseas
Sung-a Yoon's Overseas is as depressing and upsetting as it is hopeful and profound
FEMSPECTIVES 2020 - In Search…
While the film can be quite emotionally distressing, Beryl Magoko’s In Search… presents an opportunity to raise more awareness of the impact of FGM