Iranian filmmakers love two things in particular: neorealism and metafictionality. Social issues, using the documentary style, working with amateur performers, frequent presence of a film camera on the screen in various contexts, self- reflectivity — this is e.g. Jafar Panahi’s cinema. By toying with the Iranian censorship, Panahi made self-referentiality…

Although VR technology has a much longer experience in visual art and various artistic installations than in film, in the last 10 years (in 2010, Oculus Rift glasses were introduced on the market), there has been a huge evolution of the medium. …

Catarina Vasconcelos has created an extremely rich film. The Metamorphosis of Birds is a visual essay in which the narrative unfolds not only through a poetic dialogue with the past, but also through an image — a space, still life, bodies, gestures, activities, family photos. The Portuguese artist uses inanimate…

Big stories — like the unending refugee crisis — are as attractive as they are dangerous to those who dare to talk about them. After all, there is nothing easier than falling into the trap of Eurocentrism (or more broadly, the perspective of the first world inhabitant), telling about living…

Charlie Kaufman is one of those creators who do not explain their works to viewers. Considering the fact that the writer of the award-winning Adaptation (dir. Spike Jonze, 2002) approaches his original adaptations with great creative freedom — this is an honest strategy. I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Kaufman’s latest…

Beautiful Things by Giorgio Ferrero and Federico Biasina cannot be watched like a regular movie. One participates in it — as in a ritual, devout contemplation, or trance with art. The winner of the Arca Cinemagiovani award for the best Italian film in Venice brings similar originality and commitment as…

Beyond the Mountain, the feature debut of the Mexican director, David R. Romay, is a film that surprises with its simplicity and skillful balancing on the brink of exaggeration. The film by the Mexican debutant is full of youthful, coming-of-age anger. …

The winner of the main competition at this year’s festival in Berlin, There Is No Evil by Mohammad Rasoulof, combines what is characteristic of Iranian cinema (high sense of realism, camera close to people) with elements bringing a breath of freshness to the films of the region (moving away from…

Less than a month ago, Michael Moore, a well-known American left-wing documentary filmmaker, published on his YouTube channel the new movie directed by Jeff Gibbs, his longtime collaborator. Soon after the publication Planet of the Humans exceeded the threshold of 6 million views and grew a thick layer of controversy…