Exploring subversive agency & longing in El Agua Cicadas thrum, eventually reaching a deafening crescendo. The air is dry and hot. Vegetation has turned brown and brittle. A storm threatens. The river waits. Whispers of an old wives’ tale creep…

Thoughts on The Blue Caftan  I was immediately struck by the opening shot of the film, a tight close up of the titular blue caftan. Soft light reflecting off its surface, its electric colour and its movement; soft, airy and elegant. I felt as though…

Aino Suni’s first feature film Heartbeast will have its Finnish premiere at the Love & Anarchy Festival. We discussed with the lead actor Elsi Sloan about the filmmaking process, gender and activism. Elsi Sloan answers a video interview…

When did you last go to see a film that loved you? Not some amazing ideal you or thy heroic self, but you as you are, a confused small one in a dark hall. When did you last see a film that brought you up as a viewer, wanted to teach you a new way of…

‘We are not known in Europe. Though we have to talk, a lot. There is no other way’, a Ukrainian intellectual recently wrote. Good point, but I’d rephrase the statement – ‘We are not known in Europe because we were not heard’. What is the…

  Screenwriter and director Jonas Carpignano’s drama, A Chiara (2021), is the third in a trilogy set in the Southern Italian region of Calabria. The first two parts were released in 2015 and 2017. For the second of the trilogy, A Ciambra…

Seek Bromance (2021), the latest work by filmmaker and performer Samira Elagoz, is an evocative portrayal of the initial stages of seduction and limerence as well as the frustrations and anxieties of a romantic relationship between two…

The dialogue and visuals of a film tell viewers what the characters are thinking and doing. Music tells them what they’re feeling.  Human senses work both together and separately to help us observe the world around us. Cognitive functions must…