Film Screening Reviews

Through film editing which, in my observation, was done abstractly, I was intrigued to explore how the presentation of the film was based solely on visual and without narration. Perhaps that was [...]

The experiences of Bucket Riders in the films presented by Zbyněk Baladrán makes me realize that seemingly meaningless things actually have outstanding significance to create change. [...]

Hanoi DocLab focuses on giving workshops and preserving local creativity and independent thinking, since it was founded. In addition, the institute also often holds weekly screenings for [...]

Those two films have an almost identical story outline, on how the two main characters represent their life as a minority itself. However, the difference is seen from how it was depicted. In the [...]

As far as I'm watching these four films, I enjoy how these four films present the objectivity in each of their plots. After the films were finished, the applause of 14 audiences closed the [...]

Jihyeon Song, the young curator from South Korea becomes one of the presenter in ARKIPEL Penal Colony with her program titled “Closure” which was screened in the screening studio Kineforum on [...]

This curatorial program tries to invite us to be more critical to observe the septum of penal colony. Apparatus of penal colony always lives around us, forcing us to accept their logic, and [...]

Through the film, the four directors were cleverly inviting the audience to be sensitive to every detail appears on the screen, to be able to grasp the meaning intended by them. Capturing the [...]

Zikri said that three films in this curatorial program are connected because of the production method chosen by Costa. He tried to stay in Fontainhas, recording all three with DV cameras without [...]

Indeed when I watched this film I did get the impression of memoria passionis or collective memory about the suffering. The nation building process of Philippines in the era of Spanish [...]