With contributions from all the major participants in its extraordinary story, Joshua Seftel’s short documentary is a powerful piece of work.
A US marine plots a terrorist attack on a small-town American mosque. His plan takes an unexpected turn when he comes face-to-face with the people he sets out to kill.
Although it’s unique and the animation style interesting and effective in conveying its subject matter, there doesn’t seem to be quite enough substance to sustain the running time.
The peace and quiet of B and R is shattered by the advent of war.
A philosophical note lends the film an additional air of mystery that, like the plastics, can be moulded in a variety of ways, depending on your viewpoint.
Documentary charting the making of a plastic bowl.
The transition from outsider to insider, the uneasy space between protagonist, antagonist, even the chemistry with the other girls singly and collectively all speak to a delicacy that reflects the script.
At the girls' orphanage, the group’s unchecked pack mentality alienates a new arrival, who invents a new nighttime game.
Ferman Narin's camera creeps along with the grocer, through doors, up stairs, and further as things escalate.
Salih is a neighborhood grocery living alone in a monotonous life. One day with an order coming while Salih is sitting at the grocery store, he will come out of this monotony and experience the most traumatic day of his life.
Beautifully animated with some stunning watercolour backdrops, this gentle, magical story takes on issues which many young people struggle with, and neither patronises nor preaches in the process.
An urban legend speaks of a summer ghost, a spirit girl who appears when fireworks are set off.
It's uncomfortable viewing, sometimes literally so, as pictures flash by with stroboscopic intensity, but more often than not the discomfiture is emotional.
The story of Syrian Orthodox Jews living on the coast of New Jersey. Part three of The Suburban Trilogy.
A stunning work full of personality and dedication.
Spring 1976, 5-year-old Swallow is abandoned at a public boarding preschool in central Beijing. When the persimmons are ripe, Swallow masters how to cry, but doesn't forget how to fly.
Inés Barrionuevo and Augustina San Martín direct with a delicate touch, coaxing performances from their young stars that feel natural and fresh.
A few days before her Quinceañera, a girl is introduced to a cousin she has never met before, prompting her to question the values she has grown up with.
While Michael Wong's direction shows good grasp of technique it is perhaps appropriate that a film that relies so heavily on different perceptions of shared memories is so constructed in the edit.
An aspiring fashion designer has to choose between fulfilling a promise and her dream.
An intelligent film which ably demonstrates how disability can complicate life, Stutterer deserves a lot of praise for its script, direction and editing.
A typographer with a speech impediment must summon up all his courage to meet the woman he's romanced online in person.
Behind it all lies the mundanity of the situation; even when the story shifts, the lighting and props and system-centred plotting retain that grim suburban comprehensive ethos.
A supply teacher is determined simply to survive his first day at a new school.
