By Ren Scateni
An interview with BUMA composer Renán Zelada Cisneros
When I was a teenager, Saturday was a special day. Right after lunch, I would hop on my scooter…
By Ren Scateni
As We Like It is an engrossing utopia depicting a world refreshingly unthreatened by any kind of queer-inflected phobia. Despite being indebted to the wave of optimism…
By Madeleine Collier
Hello and welcome to everyone following along virtually with the 50th edition of IFFR. My name is Madeleine Collier and I am a New York-based critic, translator,…
By Madeleine Collier
In her short film The Hole’s Journey, Moroccan filmmaker Ghita Skali devises an imaginative experiment: what would happen if she removed a few worn floorboards from an…
By Madeleine Collier
French filmmaker Julien Faraut is quickly making a name for himself in a highly specialised generic niche: meditative, essayistic sports films. Building on the critical success of…
An interview with BUMA composer Merlijn Snitker by Young Film Critic Łukasz Mankowski.
My name is Łukasz Mańkowski and my corona-crisis days I spent in Warsaw, Poland. I’m a film…
By Łukasz Mańkowski
The camera slowly fades into the ambience of the jungle, unfolds the drifting sounds of the past. It is entangled with the present now. Once built by…
By Łukasz Mańkowski
There are two kinds of people. Those who love nattō and those who dearly hate it. The former cherish the aroma of fermented fragrance of soybeans on…
Interview with BUMA composer Aisling Brouwer by Young Film Critic Alonso Aguilar
There probably hasn’t been another time in human history where the world has felt as small as it…
By Alonso Aguilar
“What is the city to you?” Those are the first words we hear in Alejandro Peréz Serrano and Alejandro Alonso Estrella’s Terranova, a Cuban moyen metrage currently…
By Alonso Aguilar
As her master mindlessly does gardening work, a skinny dog watches. Her fixed gaze, entranced by the clumsy cutting motions of protagonist, Sebastián (Daniel Katz), appears like…
Interview with BUMA composer Matthijs Kieboom by Young Film Critic Jason T. Liwag.
What I grew up to become — a molecular biologist, a theatre actor, a film critic —…