Tag: SFIFF

Quiet desperation in Istanbul Documentary filmmaker Belmin Söylemez focoses in her beautiful, atmospheric feature debut on an enigmatic woman called ...

A romantic reverie in a minor key at the Buttes-Chaumont Sébastien Betbeder's little film is a mixture of things, mainly, ...

Art and life in Vienna Tall, grey haired, amiable and pensive, Vienna-born Booby Sommer could be a university lecturer. In ...

Death and the maiden Narration of this ingenious head trip is divided between an engineer and lifelong depressive, Khosro Shahidi ...

Negotiations with modern pirates Danish director Tobias Lindholm (who has worked with Thomas Vinterberg on a lot of writing, including ...

Running away and joining a mosque in Buenos Aires In Argentinean director Florencia Alvarez's first feature, Analia (Martina Juncadella), a ...

The sins of the parents This good-looking and tightly edited little Korean film is unobtrusive little gem lacking the European-style ...

Orphans in Rome For her third feature Chilean writer-director Alicia Scherson -- whose Santiago-set debut, Play, (SFIFF 2006) I loved ...

New directors, old theme, less success Given California's proximity to Asia, certainly a big flashy new Hong Kong police drama ...

Man and boy on the edge of dying Lima In Peruvian filmmaker Adrian Saba's sad but sweet feature debut El ...