A Categories Criticism Savina Petkova After Love grieves the crisis of identity: marital, religious, and transnational After Love (Aleem Khan, 2021, UK)
N Categories Criticism Savina Petkova Nomadland entwines a lyrical American West with the corroding effects of capitalism and age Nomadland (Chloé Zhao, 2020, US)
A Categories Criticism Savina Petkova Absurdist thriller She Dies Tomorrow channels today’s existential dread She Dies Tomorrow (Amy Seimetz, 2020, US)
F Categories Commentary Savina Petkova Fairy-tale feminism: recalling female agency in The Swan Princess Sabotaged and overshadowed by a resurgent Disney Animation, this forgotten fairy-tale empowered at least one person.
A Categories Conversations Savina Petkova Agnieszka Holland won’t forget the past. "There is a duty to translate this history into the feature film, which is a popular art that can reach people and wake up their imagination and emotions."
K Categories Criticism IFFR Savina Petkova KALA AZAR Intra species oscillations govern Janis Rafa’s haunting first feature, winner of Rotterdam’s KNF Award
P Categories Criticism IFFR Savina Petkova PROXIMA Mother and daughter say goodbye in Alice Winocour’s latest feature, an earthbound drama that evokes otherworldly grief
M Categories Criticism IFFR Savina Petkova MEANWHILE ON EARTH A purgatorial vision of the Swedish funeral industry examines existentialism and death, and does so vivaciously
I Categories Criticism IFFR Savina Petkova ISADORA’S CHILDREN Gestures predate personal grief in this meditative feature debut by dancer-director Damien Manivel
C Categories BFI LFF Criticism Savina Petkova COLOUR OUT OF SPACE A family goes berserk in a Lovecraftian horror which you’ll remember for Nicolas Cage milking an alpaca
F Categories BFI LFF Criticism Savina Petkova FAMILY ROMANCE, LLC Renting out family and friends is the new focus of Herzog’s exploratory lens
K Categories Conversations Savina Petkova Kantemir Balagov has a passion. "You can be an old man at the age of eighteen, mentally or physically. It doesn’t matter that much if you don’t have a passion for life."
B Categories BFI LFF Criticism MUBI Savina Petkova BEANPOLE Kantemir Balagov’s second feature tackles issues of motherhood, PTSD, and the strive to bring colour into post-WWII life
M Categories BFI LFF Criticism Savina Petkova MONOS A stark portrayal of excessive violence and child militance that renders all the comforts of civilisation unimportant
W Categories BFI LFF Criticism Savina Petkova WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS Questions of colonialism frame Ciro Guerra’s English-language debut
