EIFF 2013

That's it. Another EIFF comes and goes, and a few of us Flickfeasters can now put our feet up and enjoy a bit of a breather after a job well done. Because, let's be honest, we're pretty much at the top of the pile when it comes to coverage…

A slow, thoughtful and thought-provoking movie that looks at culture and class in modern Slovakia, My Dog Killer will infuriate as many people as it pleases. After a fairly dull opening, I wondered if this would be yet another movie that I…

Jonathan Groff plays Samuel, though he's known to many other people as David, a young man who decides to take a time out from his life and "slum it" for a while. He wants to get some life experience, get his hands dirty and perhaps get his…

Four young people, all with different disabilities, turn up for their time at the swimming pool and that’s all there is to this simple, and strangely charming, film. They have an instructor (Raul Capote) looking after them, but he tries to…

Laura (Julie Andersen) and Christine (Emilie Kruse) are best friends, inseparable, until the arrival of a young woman named Maria (Frederikke Dahl Hansen). Maria causes a major rift between the two girls as she grows close to Laura and…

Space has always been a source of fascination for the human race. During the 60s when the Space Race was in full swing, people were promised holidays to the moon and the chance to visit the final frontier. The promise wasn't fullfilled, and…

Sofia is the capital of Bulgaria. It has a population of well over 1 million people (about 1.3 million at the last count, according to various online sources I just checked). It has streets full of potholes. It has many people requiring…

Silibil 'n' Brains were two musicians who spent a couple of years in the early part of the "noughties" poised on the edge of huge success. They were two guys from California who had talent, great lyrics and an attitude that could have been…

Three sisters is all about, you guessed it, three sisters. They are aged four, six and ten years old and live a hard life in a remote area of a rural Chinese province. Director Bing Wang and his (small) crew filmed these young girls and…

Starting with an amusing, and accurate, critique of the second Transformers movie, Die Welt takes viewers along with the central character to soak up the atmosphere and look at the culture of modern Tunisia. It has humour, but it’s not a…