Tag: Nadim Carlsen
Interview: Isabella Eklöf – Kalak
In her stunning feature debut (that premiered at Sundance), Swedish filmmaker Isabella Eklöf offered an unflinching and pitiless examination of a drug dealer's inner...
Locust | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Code of Silence: KEFF Revisits Time of Turmoil
For his directorial debut, KEFF revisits the pinnacle of turmoil during the 2019 Hong Kong protests as...
2023 San Sebastián: Camborda’s “The Rye Horn” Wins Golden Shell, “Kalak” & “Puan” Double Up in Prizes
It's now the fourth year in a row that a female filmmaker has won San Sebastián's prestigious Golden Shell award. After Déa Kulumbegashvili's Beginning,...
Holy Spider | Review
Thrill Crazy. Kill Crazy. God Crazy: Abbasi Tackles Brutal Reality of Women and Islamofascism
“Every man shall meet what he wishes to avoid,” is the...
Dirty Dane: Emil Johnsen Confronts Painful Past in Isabella Eklöf’s “Kalak”
In terms of new trauma triggering old trauma experiences, her debut film Holiday was no walk in the park and now for Isabella Eklöf's...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #37. Ali Abbasi’s Holy Spider
Holy Spider
Winner of the Un Certain Regard section in 2018 (watch the ceremony here) with his sophomore feature Border, Ali Abbasi has been developing...
Interview: Isabella Eklöf – Holiday
I was lassoed by the pre-fest launching of the accompanying marketing materials for this Danish-Dutch-Swedish co-production Sundance's World Cinema Dramatic Comp selected debut, and...
Video: Isabella Eklöf’s Holiday | 2018 Sundance Film Festival
With American indie being the focal point of our Sundance coverage, it takes a little coaxing for us to check out the offerings found...
Interview: Ali Abbasi – Border
Two years after Shelley, a horror film based on a Norse mythology and folktale, Ali Abbasi premiered the buzz heavy Border at the Cannes Film...
Video: Ali Abbassi’s Border | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
The surprise hit of the Un Certain Regard and kudos to the Benicio del Toro led jury on giving the section's top honors, Ali...
