New Directors/New Films

A Journey In Spring is one of the most impressive contributions to date in the new Taiwanese cinema.

Hesitation Wound is a melancholy piece of cinema but such an accomplished one that it is a delight to watch.

The powerful forces of family and fable, old and new, intertwine and vie for supremacy in Belgian-Congolese director Baloji’s visually striking debut.

Beneath the intense lead performance and the minimalist but effective camera work, there is a rigid moral waiting to be unearthed.

A hilariously biting film that allows its characters to be their bitter, failed selves rather than part of a political message.

The silence between the calls serves as a space for the horror of them to fully take shape in the viewers’ mind.

Slippery in terms of genre and form, the writer/director’s satire puts all his characters and, by extension, us under close scrutiny.

Freire captures not just the emotional but physical force of these relationships, with the women coming to blows, their acts of cruelty to one another as powerful as their acts of love.

The unadorned observation of the physical aspects of the relationship in which middle-aged bodies are shown without artifice is one of the most hypnotic aspect of Naveriani’s vision.