TagSenem Tüzen

Drama, Tallinn 2015, Thessaloniki 2015

Ana Yurdu (Motherland) – Thessaloniki 56 Balkan Survey

Senem Tüzen explores if Motherland could be the place of reconciliation of past and present in an ongoing love-hate relationship between a mother and her daughter.

REVIEWS

The President – Venice 71 Orizzonti

An allegorical political satire by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, that despite the initial absurdity becomes predictable and didactic in a simplistic way.

Shell – Torino 30

A slow paced family kitchen sink drama directed by Scott Graham and set in the Scottish highlands. Winner of the 30th Torino Film Festival.

Ida (2013)

Paweł Pawlikowski tries to express everything that troubled 60s Poland but his aesthetic austere formalism surpasses the content.

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.

Viharsarok (Land of Storms) – Sarajevo 20

A deeply emotional and visually impressive drama by Ádám Császi, that exposes the issue of homophobia in modern day Hungary.

TagSenem Tüzen

Ana Yurdu (Motherland) – Thessaloniki 56 Balkan Survey

The President – Venice 71 Orizzonti

Shell – Torino 30

Ida (2013)

Zvizdan (The High Sun) – Thessaloniki 56 Balkan Survey

Viharsarok (Land of Storms) – Sarajevo 20

Chris Marker on time

Jacques Rivette: Should filmmakers see movies?

André Bazin: The Ontology of the Photographic Image

Herz Frank on documentarists

John Cassavetes: I am here and I don’t know why