TagDalibor Matanić

Drama, Romance, Tallinn 2015, Thessaloniki 2015, War

Zvizdan (The High Sun) – Thessaloniki 56 Balkan Survey

Dalibor Matanić makes a different post-traumatic approach of the Yugoslav wars as love has to stand in front of any inter-ethnic conflicts.

REVIEWS

Saul Fia (Son of Saul) – Sarajevo 21

László Nemes masterfully recreates a Holocaust Inferno where you can’t escape and the only way to survive is through death. Special Jury Prize at the 21st Sarajevo Film Festival.

Stachka (Strike, 1925)

The debut feature film by Sergei Eisenstein and the first archetypical example of pure communist propaganda.

The Act of Killing (2012)

Joshua Oppenheimer creates a multilayered documentary that explores the Indonesian massacres by blending fiction with reality, the present with the past and surrealism with true horror.

Elena (2011)

The Revelation according to Andrei Zvyagintsev doesn’t come after a terrifying future event. It is the already present moral collapse that will bring the inevitable catastrophe.

Piccola Patria (Small Homeland) – Venice 70 Orizzonti

A typical rural kitchen sink drama in the industrialized Italian region of Veneto that now faces the economical crisis. Directed by Alessandro Rossetto.

TagDalibor Matanić

Zvizdan (The High Sun) – Thessaloniki 56 Balkan Survey

Saul Fia (Son of Saul) – Sarajevo 21

Stachka (Strike, 1925)

The Act of Killing (2012)

Elena (2011)

Piccola Patria (Small Homeland) – Venice 70 Orizzonti

Dziga Vertov’s Eye

TV vs. Cinema by Jean-Luc Godard

André Bazin: The Ontology of the Photographic Image

Alain Robbe-Grillet: What is Formalism?

The Meaning of Cinema by Andrei Tarkovsky