Edinburgh International Film Festival · 2013
14 films · 11 reviews
(Country: UK; Year: 2013; Director: James Erskine, Zara Hayes; Stars: Billie Jean King, Bobby Riggs)
(Country: USA; Year: 2013; Director: PJ Raval)
(Country: Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Thomas Heise)
The emphasis here is on the immediate and indirect ecological effects, which the film renders in aesthetic terms without ever becoming a compelling interrogation in itself.
(Country: Italy; Year: 2013; Director: Massimo D'Anolfi, Martina Parenti)
Jennifer Steinman has achieved something special.
(Country: USA; Year: 2013; Director: Jennifer Steinman)
This is amazing stuff.
(Country: United Kingdom; Year: 2013; Director: Jeanie Finlay; Stars: Gavin Bain, Billy Boyd)
A full picture of the nuts and bolts of people smuggling.
(Country: Palestine, UAE, Lebanon; Year: 2013; Director: Khaled Jarrar; Stars: Khaled Jarrar)
This is an impressionistic portrait, as multi-faceted and delicate as the flies which we see being created at points through the film.
(Country: US, UK; Year: 2013; Director: Eric Steel)
There is no dull speaker, and director Simon Ennis deftly illustrates the subjects with well-chosen archive footage.
(Country: Canada; Year: 2012; Director: Simon Ennis; Stars: Christopher Carson, Alan Bean, Dennis Hope, Peter Kokh)
Sniadecki and Cohn draw us into this space at the same time as frustrating all notions of narrative, momentum or rhythm.
(Country: US; Year: 2012; Director: Libbie Dina Cohn, JP Sniadecki)
Apfel's film just watches, even surveils.
(Country: Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Niko Apel)
The film’s strict and self-imposed limitations mean that the wider forces by which the trio’s gruelling routine is largely governed only seep through here and there.
(Country: Croatia, Bulgaria, Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Ilian Metev; Stars: Krassimir Yordanov, Mila Mikhailova, Plamen Slavkov)
El-Qalqili Sr. is a fiery figure who seems unable to sit with his daughter without finding some point of contention in the wording of her questions.
(Country: Germany; Year: 2012; Director: Pary El-Qalqili; Stars: Musa El-Qalqili, Sibylle El-Qalqili, Pary El-Qalqili, Maliha Abu Jaber, Um Massad El-Qalqili)
Mournful in tone and associative in style and rhythm.
(Country: China, USA; Year: 2013; Director: J P Sniadecki, Huang Xiang, Xu Ruotao; Stars: Xue Hua, Chen Qi, Zhou Qian, Huang Xiang, Xu Ruotao)
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