Alex Heeney reflects back on the 17 best films at the 2023 so far
World Cinema
The Eight Mountains is a sweeping story of friendship and time
Felix van Groenigen and Charlotte Vandermeersch’s The Eight Mountains is about the ebbs and flows of time and the friendship between two unlikely friends over decades.
Alice Winocour on the personal and national trauma of Revoir Paris
In this interview, Alice Winocour discusses telling a subjective story of coping with PTSD in her film Revoir Paris.
Visions du Réel Review: Piotr Pawlus and Tomasz Wolski’s In Ukraine
Tomasz Wolski’s observational documentary In Ukraine is the best and most harrowing film I’ve seen about the Ukraine War because it focuses on the banal.
Visions du Réel & HotDocs Review: Erik Gandini’s After Work
Erik Gandini works with documentary images and sounds as if he’s making a musical in his creative nonfiction film After Work, a look at varying attitudes to work around the world.
Chie Hayakawa on avoiding sentimentality in Plan 75
In this interview, writer-director Chie Hayakawa talks about asking tough questions and avoiding sentimentality in her first feature, Plan 75. She also discusses how the film reflects the increasing lack of empathy for the most vulnerable people in society in the real world.