Supporting Indie Film
Written and directed by Jens Meurer, co-written by Franziska Kramer, following the revenge of analogue and the eccentric, crazy Austrian scientist, who saved the world’s last Polaroid factory – just when Steve Jobs introduced the first iPhone. Starring: Florian Kaps, Oskar Smolokowski, David C. Bohnett, Christopher Bonanos and Anna Kaps.
Continue reading “Review: An Impossible Project”
Written and directed by Alice Rohrwacher, during the COVID-19 pandemic, filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher gets in touch with her neighbourhoods through her photographic lenses.
Continue reading “Review: Four Roads (Le quattro strade)”
Directed by Riccardo Servini and Nick Taussig, a portrait of one family’s struggle to transcend a fatal muscle wasting disease, Duchenne muscular dystrophy, which in turn becomes an unlikely celebration of the disabled life, the life cut short by rare disease.
Continue reading “Review: A Space in Time”
Written, directed and narrated by Ross Munro, a son’s contemporary reflection on a family trip to Europe in the summer of 1973 and the revelation of the trip’s true purpose: a father fulfilling his dream of reconnecting his five small children to the steps of his own father, when he fought in World War II.
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Written and directed by Michael Seligman and Jennifer Tiexiera, a cache of letters written by 1950s New York drag queens was discovered in 2014, now in their eighties and nineties, the letters they wrote bear witness to a time when gay community was hard to find. Starring: Michael Alogna, Henry Arango, James Bidgood, Robert Bouvard, George Chauncey and Claude Diaz.
Continue reading “Review: P.S. Burn This Letter Please”
Directed by Jesse Schluntz, an American Christian (Todd Morehead) with a deep love for Israel sets off on a journey across the Holy Land to confront his indifference toward the Palestinians and to search for the deeper truths behind one of the most perplexing and debated conflicts in the world. Along the way, he discovers the painful struggles of Jews, Muslims and Christians on both sides of the conflict.
Continue reading “Review: Hope in the Holy Land”
Written and directed by Shaun Katz, co-written by Jb Sapienza, the story of the rise and fall of 90’s alt-rock, in the wake of Nirvana’s success. Starring: Joey Castillo, Martin Atkins, Marston Daley, Jim Coleman, Aimee Echo, Tim Cronin, Aaron Beam, Steve Albini, Chris Connelly, Jon Bunch and more.
Continue reading “Review: Underground Inc”
Written and directed by Celeste Bell and Paul Sng, co-written by Zoe Howe, the death of a punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey through her mother’s archives. Featuring the voices of: Ruth Negga, Jonathan Ross, Kathleen Hanna, Don Letts, Neneh Cherry, Thurston Moore, Pauline Black, Vivienne Westwood and many more.
Continue reading “Review: Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché”
Directed by Aisling Chin-Yee and Chase Joynt, written by Chin-Yee and Amos Mac, an in-depth look at the life of musician and trans culture icon Billy Tipton. Starring: Kate Bornstein, Susan Stryker, Marquise Vilson, Hennessy Winkler and Stephan Pennington.
Continue reading “Review: No Ordinary Man”
Directed by Harri Shanahan and Siân A. Williams, exploring the explosion that happened when punk met feminism, told through the lives of a gang of lesbians in the riotous London of the 1980s.
Continue reading “Review: Rebel Dykes”
Written and directed by Alexa Bakony, co-written by Marianna Rudas, Éva and her family live in a tiny village in Hungary, her 16-year-old child recently came out as transgender and lives by his chosen name of Tobi. After the initial shock, the whole family comes together to support him. However, Éva is quietly suffocating from the idea of losing the girl she was raising. Starring: Tóbiás Benjámin Tuza, Éva Ildikó Tuza, Zoltán Tuza, Nikolett Tuza and Máté Tuza.
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