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That Burning House
(Shi Le Yuan,
火宅之犬)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date December 4 2025
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(Shi Le Yuan,
火宅之犬)
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Director – Tsai Yin-chuan – 2025 – Taiwan – 133m ****1/2 Teachers in a juvenile care home attempt to break the cycle of violence among their charges – premieres in the Critics’ Picks Competition of the 29th Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival This is one of those films that takes place in several different times in the characters lives, including […]

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Rimini
(Rimini)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 15 2022
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(Rimini)
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Director – Ulrich Siedl – 2022 – Austria, France, Germany – Cert. 18 – 114m ***** A singer of romantic songs performs to elderly female fans (in more ways than one) in an off-season seaside town as his past catches up with him – in cinemas from Friday, December 9th following its screening in the […]

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My Missing Valentine
(Xiao Shi
De Qing Ren Jie,
消失的情人節)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date October 29 2021
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(Xiao Shi
De Qing Ren Jie,
消失的情人節)

Director – Chen Yu-Hsun – 2020 – Taiwan – 119m ***** A woman unexpectedly finds she’s both missed Valentine’s Day and become mysteriously sunburned – charming and hilarious comedy from the London East Asia Film Festival (LEAFF), on now A woman enter a police station to report an incident. She went to bed and woke […]

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My Favorite War
(Mans mīļākais karš)

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 24 2020
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(Mans mīļākais karš)

Director – Ilze Burkovska Jacobsen – 2020 – Latvia, Norway – Cert. N/C 12+ – 77m **** Autobiographical documentary employs cut-out animation to describe a childhood in Latvia when it was part of the Soviet Union – Glasgow Film Festival Thursday, February 25th to Sunday, February 28th In World War Two. Latvia was caught between […]

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Kill It And Leave This Town

Post author By Jeremy Clarke
Post date June 19 2020
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Director – Mariusz Wilczynski– 2020 – Poland – 88m ****1/2 From the Annecy 2020 Online Animation Festival From its opening of a man smoking in the dark to its closing image of giants tied down on a beach like felled Gullivers in Lilliput, this is awash with the sort of gloomy imagery readily associated with […]

Tags 2D animation, animation, Annecy, Annecy 2020, family, fish, fishmongers, human rights, parents and children, Poland, seaside, street, train, tram, urban