One can only imagine when the Finnish Film Academy submitted Concrete Night as the country’s official submission for the Best Foreign Picture Oscar in 2014, that the Finnish Tourist Authorities must have had a royal fit. This deeply disturbing story is shot in a bleak unforgiving depressing public housing project in one of Helsinki’s rougher … Continue reading
Brazilian queer filmmaker Thiago Cazado is a remarkably talented young man. Not only has he written and co-directed his sophomore film but he has starred in it too playing a teenager almost half his age (33 years). Cousins is a cute queer romance that may not tax your imagination with it’s light and … Continue reading
For his feature writing/directing debut filmmaker Jonah Greenstein tells an intriguing tale about Joseph (Alexander Horner) a handsome homeless drifter who works out how to survive in New York. He looks up on Grindr with older men for sex and hustles them for money, food and a place to stay overnight. He always imbues … Continue reading
In a rather remote region of East Germany near the Polish Border Jakob the young newbie village Policeman is trying to dissuade a wolf from frightening all the locals by leaving it bags of fresh meat deep in the forest. Why he should think that would deter the wolf makes very little sense, but then … Continue reading
Juanma Carrillo is a Spanish independent filmmaker, producer, photographer and occasional musician whose collection of short movies are always highly intriguing, extremely sensuous, often avant-garde art pieces of art, but always immensely engaging. He seems to set out to shock and titillate his audience, and is not adverse to adding a few humorous touches, and even … Continue reading