Pawo Choyning Dorji’s film A Road to a Village follows a family in a remote mountanous village in Nepal where the new road to the city brings modernity but threatens their way of life.
Film Reviews
Here you will find every film review we've written. These include: festival films, new releases, and older films.
TIFF 23 Film Review: Pawo Choyning Dorji’s The Monk and the Gun
Pawo Choyning Dorji’s film The Monk and the Gun is a warm, light-hearted, often funny story of a place shifting from one way of life to another, uncertain whether newer is necessarily better.
TIFF 23 Film Review: Pema Tseden’s Snow Leopard
Set in the high altitudes of the Tibetan Plateau, against stunning mountains and lakes, Pema Tseden’s Snow Leopard is a call for empathy, not just for animals but other humans
Bank of Dave is a heartwarming showcase for Rory Kinnear
Chris Foggin’s film Bank of Dave is a showcase for the great theatre actor Rory Kinnear who proves he can also play a Tom Hanks-esque leading man.
Good Condition and The Event: Short films by Frank Mosley and Hugo de Sousa
Frank Mosley and Hugo de Sousa’s short films Good Condition and The Event are often funny genre-inflected character dramas.
Fantasia Film Review: Stéphan Castang’s Vincent Must Die
Alex Heeney reviews Stéphan Castang’s film Vincent Must Die works like a zombie film, where anybody could become a zombie at a moment’s notice — and not the slow-moving kind.