Canadian feature-film, ROOBHA highlights the difficulties faced not only of being transgender, but of being transgender within a conservative culture. Living in a Tamil community, ROOBHA (Amrit Sandhu) is a transgendered woman who is shunned and rejected by her family and who has to fight for her way of life. Things begin to improve for … Continue reading Roobha
Stephen Watson offers an introduction to Lech Majewski’s visually inspiring and intellectually stimulating cinematic works, screening at CFF2015
Squirm-inducing body horror, the field recording expeditions of a pig farmer, meditations on free will, and a vague romance. Paul Milne reviews Shane Carruth’s latest.
TAKE ONE recommends the minimal but moving performance from Ohad Knoller as YOSSI, in Eytan Fox’s story of bittersweet romance in the grotesque resort of Eilat in Israel.
This frothy offering from Director/Writer team Lasse HallstrÖm and Simon Beaufoy had audiences in Norwich hooting with laughter.
It’s plain to see just from the trailer that this isn’t your typical, brainless romcom – from the idiosyncratic characterisation to the humour and honesty of the script, LOVE AFTER SUNRISE shows true potential for a thinking man’s look at love.
