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You And The Night, celebrated at Cannes’s Critics’ Week in 2014, cemented Yann Gonzalez’s reputation as a truly original director, with his own brand of stylish, colourful and erotic filmmaking. With Knife+Heart, Gonzalez offers up a stylised slasher flick in the vein of Italian gialli, set in the heart of the gay porn industry in the seedier parts of 1970s Paris. The film opens with a particularly gruesome murder in which a masked killer stabs his victim repeatedly with a dildo-shaped (…)

Searching Eva does not use titular character, Eva Collé, as a metaphor for Generation Z taken for granted intersectionality and ‘always on’ social media. Eva’s identity laundry list and reluctance to ‘be’ a gender, culture or nationality is simply context. Its probe into her life through social media posts and vignettes is simply the setup. The true offering of this documentary is its reflection on perception and presentation. In the age of social media, whose domination isn’t limited to (…)

Benedikt Erlingsson is an Icelandic director, author and actor. His first feature, Of Horses and Men, was a hit on the festival circuit and won many international awards, including the New Directors Prize at the 2013 San Sebastián Film Festival and the 2014 Nordic Council Film Prize. His latest film, Woman at War, tells the story of Halla, an environmental activist fighting the local aluminum industry in Iceland through acts of sabotage, some of them large-scale enough to become the focus (…)

POSSUM is the debut feature film from writer/director Matthew Holness, co-creator and writer/star of the cult TV series Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace. Following its successful World Premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival and Irish Premiere at the Galway Film Festival, POSSUM screened at Frightfest in August and will be released in cinemas on 26 October.

Naila and the Uprising was a DocHouse screening. It’s rare that a film makes me so angry that I can’t seem to describe it without a rant summarising it as ‘o the injustice!’ but that really was the effect of Julia Bacha’s film. Opening scene: mum, grown-up son, living room, baby pictures, embarrassment. This is familiar. That’s how a lot of Naila’s story feels: familiar. She’s just a regular woman, a passionate proactive patriot, mother, friend, wife, sister. She’s a women’s (…)

Vous croyiez avoir compris Peter Pan ? Personne n’incarne davantage le mythe que Taelor et ses amis. Découvrez "Southern Belle" le 11 avril 2018 au Cinéma

Un aperçu des récentes critiques de Guillaume Coulaud, nouveau membre de l’équipe

Un film proche de nous, qui fait rire, transporte et questionne, premier film d’un oeil prometteur, Vent du Nord est un film à voir.

When we talk about women in music, many of us can come up with a substantial list of female musicians we like. Many of us also don’t give much thought to the presence of women in the creative ‘process” behind their music, where a rooted misogynist culture is more apparent. Play Your Gender, directed by Stephanie Clattenburg, really helps us pull back the curtain to see what is happening in the music industry, and how male-dominated it is when one tends to seek any female music producers (…)

’We are still here’ are the final words uttered by Oscar Isaac in The Promise, which depicts the harrowing story of the Armenian genocide, the very first genocide of the twentieth century, yet a genocide still denied to this very day. Set in 1915 Constantinople, it opens with a pleasant and colourful vista of Armenian tradition and culture, before taking a much darker turn with the lead up to the genocide. This film undeniably represents so much more to many people than mere Hollywood (…)