Wales One World Film Festival · 2012
This year's films.
21 films · 11 reviews
Las Acacias is a slow subtle film which focuses on the interaction of the three main characters within the bubble of the truck's cab.
(Country: Argentina, Spain; Year: 2011; Director: Pablo Giorgelli; Writer: Pablo Giorgelli, Salvador Roselli; Stars: Germán de Silva, Hebe Duarte, Nayra Calle Mamani)
A beautifully observed study of a small community remaining united in the face of seismic shifts.
(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: John Sayles; Writer: John Sayles; Stars: Chris Cooper, DJ Qualls, Garret Dillahunt, Yul Vazquez, Lucas Neff, James Parks, Dane DeHaan, Stephen Taylor, Bill Tangradi, Joel Torre, Rio Locsin, Bembol Roco, Irma Adlawan, Ronnie Lazaro, Pen Medina) , Official site
(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Tim Pearce, Sophie Lascelles, Marc Tiley)
Unfortunately, the strong performances and engaging visuals come together to form a film that ultimately seems to lack direction.
(Country: Austria; Year: 2011; Director: Karl Markovics; Writer: Karl Markovics; Stars: Thomas Schubert, Karin Lischka, Gerhard Liebmann, Georg Friedrich, Stefan Matousch) , Official site
(Country: Germany, Sweden, Denmark; Year: 2009; Director: René Bo Hansen; Writer: Staffan Julén, Stefan Karlsson; Stars: Bazarbai Matei, Serikbai Khulan, Mardan Matei, Asilbek Badelkhan, Bejei Kulimkhan, Almaguli Matyei)
Tthere are about six or seven fascinating shorts competing for attention here, and Burch and Sekula’s respective backgrounds pull the film one way and then the other, never quite settling into a structurally or aesthetically consistent framework.
(Country: The Netherlands; Year: 2010; Director: Allan Sekula, Noël Burch) , Official site
(Country: Ethiopia, Netherlands; Year: 2012; Director: Ilja Kok, Willem Timmers)
(Country: Portugal, France, Brazil; Year: 2010; Director: Raoul Ruiz; Writer: Camilo Castelo Branco, Carlos Saboga; Stars: Léa Seydoux, Melvil Poupaud, Clotilde Hesme, Lena Friedrich, Malik Zidi, José Afonso Pimentel, Catarina Wallenstein, Filipe Vargas, Ricardo Pereira, Miguel Monteiro, João Baptista, Carloto Cotta, Marco D'Almeida, Sofia Aparício, Maria João Bastos) , Official site
(Country: China (Tibet); Year: 2010; Director: Pema Tseden; Writer: Pema Tseden; Stars: Lochey, Drolma Kyab, Tamdrin Tso)
The family are captivating subject matter, the strong personalities frequently tugging in different directions, so that the film is never short of drama.
(Country: Netherlands; Year: 2010; Director: Leonard Retel Helmrich) , Official site
(Country: UK, France, South Africa; Year: 2011; Director: Simon Bright; Writer: Ingrid Sinclair, Llewellyn the Last; Stars: Guy de Lancey, Robert Mugabe)
The gradual slip into tragedy in the film's last few reels offer up a reeling pathos rare in a Svankmajer picture.
(Country: Czech Republic; Year: 2010; Director: Jan Svankmajer; Writer: Jan Svankmajer; Stars: Václav Helsus, Klára Issová, Zuzana Kronerová, Daniela Bakerova, Emília Doseková, Marcel Nemec, Jan Pocepický, Jana Olhová, Pavel Nový, Karel Brozek)
(Country: France; Year: 2010; Director: Coline Serreau; Writer: Coline Serreau; Stars: Dominique Guillet, Vandana Shiva, Ana Primavesi, Philippe Desbrosses, Pierre Rabhi, João Pedro Stedile, Serge Latouche, Devinder Sharma, Lydia Bourguignon, Claude Bourguignon, Antoniets Semen Sviridonovitch) , Official site
The effect is absorbing, like opening a wonderfully illustrated storybook.
(Country: France; Year: 2011; Director: Michel Ocelot; Writer: Michel Ocelot; Stars: Julien Bramis, Marine Griset, Michel Elias)
There is a charm and grace to this 'not' film that mirrors all of Panahi's previous filmic masterpieces.
(Country: Iran; Year: 2011; Director: Jafar Panahi, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb; Writer: Jafar Panahi; Stars: Jafar Panahi, Igi, Mrs. Gheirat, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Rakhsan, Sima, Micky, Hasan, Jafar Panahi, Igi, Mrs. Gheirat, Mojtaba Mirtahmasb, Rakhsan, Sima, Micky)
(Country: Russia; Year: 1928; Director: Victor A. Turin; Writer: Yakov Aron, Viktor Shklovsky)
This gentle, observational film comes as close as is possible to exploring its subject's world without passing judgement.
(Country: UK, Uganda; Year: 2009; Director: Carol Salter; Stars: Locheng)
(Country: Uruguay, Spain; Year: 2010; Director: Federico Veiroj; Stars: Jorge Jellinek, Manuel Martínez Carril, Paola Venditto)
Comes across as a thoroughly modern film.
(Country: Japan; Year: 1960; Director: Mikio Naruse; Writer: Ryuzo Kikushima; Stars: Hideko Takamine, Masayuki Mori, Reiko Dan, Tatsuya Nakadai, Daisuke Katô, Ganjiro Nakamura, Eitarô Ozawa, Keiko Awaji)
(Country: UK; Year: 2008; Director: David Eberts; Writer: Jordan Roberts; Stars: Morgan Freeman)
Labaki manages to get across a view of life that is not predominant in cinematic stories, without making it seem like an agenda.
(Country: Lebanon; Year: 2011; Director: Nadine Labaki; Writer: Rodney Al Haddid, Jihad Hojeily, Nadine Labaki; Stars: Kevin Abboud, Claude Baz Moussawbaa, Julian Farhat, Ali Haidar, Leyla Hakim, Nadine Labaki, Yvonne Maalouf, Claude Moussawbaa, Antoinette Noufaily)
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