Discover emerging critics' takes on Concerned Citizen, the alumni film they saw and reviewed as part of their pre-BT homework.
• Designed to Be by Łukasz Mańkowski
• A Profound…
Welcome to the 2022 Berlinale Talent Press, please take a seat. COVID restrictions meant our twentieth edition could only take place virtually, but we, the Talents, still managed to forge…
The FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project has returned to the 37th Warsaw International Film Festival, which runs from October 8 to 17, 2021. The training workshops for young critics and film journalists…
Hive (Zgjoy, 2021), dir. Blerta Basholli
“I thought we all had a limited reservoir of tears in ourselves,” writes Javier Cercas in his most recent novel Lord of All the…
Meeting Point (Kimya, 2021), dir. Umut Evirgen
Written and directed by Umut Evirgen, Meeting Point thwarts its promise of adventure with an overreliance on blurry aesthetics (evoking the sensation…
Sisterhood Founded on Blood, Sweat & Tears: an Interview with Monika Kotecka and Karolina Poryzała
The Herd (2021) is a tender look at sisterhood and committed examination of the ups…
In Limbo (2021), dir. Aleksandr Khant
Discipline the punished: Aleksandr Khant delivers spellbindingly-sardonic millennial take on the getaway genre.
“I vow to become a drunk, I vow to be a…
The Hill Where the Lionesses Roar (2021), dir. Luàna Bajrami
“It will wash away your bitterness,” Qe (Flaka Latifi) tells her friend Li (Era Balaj), insisting that she takes a…
I am Fine, Thanks (2021), dir. Ernestas Jankauskas
I am Fine, Thanks: Ted Lasso’s Lithuanian female lookalike
The fans of the brilliant AppleTV+ series Ted Lasso know how often behind…
The Herd (2021), dir. Monika Kotecka, Karolina Poryzyała, Poland
A herd of their own: Monika Kotecka and Karolina Poryzya acquaint us with the sisterhood of a horse-vaulting team
“The vaulting…
Meet the 2021 young film critics:
Alonso Aguilar (Costa Rica)
Jason Tan Liwag (Philippines)
Łukasz Mańkowski (Poland)
Madeleine Collier (USA)
Ren Scateni (UK)
Zanji Sinkala (Zambia)
Interview with BUMA composer Tess van der Velde by Young Film Critic Zanji Sinkala.
My name is Zanji, and I am a journalist from Zambia, Southern Africa who takes pride…