Director – Gints Zilbalodis – 2019 – Latvia – Cert. U – 75m****1/2From the director of Oscar winner Flow (2024), his debut animated feature Away is exclusively back in cinemas from Friday, March 14th It originally played in the 2019 Annecy International Animation Festival. A boy hangs from a tree by a parachute in a […]
Directors – Maryam Mogadam, Behtash Sanaeeha – 2024 – Iran, France, Sweden, Germany – Cert. 12a – 97m ****1/2 An old woman living alone in Iran takes a shine to a taxi driver after learning he has no romantic attachments – out in UK cinemas on Friday, September 13th Mahin (Lily Farhadpour), 70, likes to […]
Director – Megan Freels Johnston – 2018 – US – Cert. 15 – 96m **1/2 A housewife newly moved in to a suburb is unnerved by the creepy, local ice cream man and van… with good reason, as it turns out – on VoD and DVD from Monday, March 1st Having just moved back into […]
Director – Michaël Dudok De Wit – 2016 – France / Belgium / Japan – Cert. PG – 82m ***** A man shipwrecked on an island encounters a red turtle. From the get-go, this is not your usual 2D animated film. The Red Turtle is slow-paced, has no dialogue and is certainly not aimed at […]
Director – Chan Lok-yi – 2017 – Hong Kong – Cert. N/C 12+ – 23m ***** A schoolgirl looking for her first alcoholic drink falls in with a poor, unemployed man who likes to drink – online and Free To View in the UK in the Fresh Wave short films strand of Focus Hong Kong […]