By Last Caress. The Unraveling opens on a heroin addict going through the process of injecting his drug of choice. That heroin addict is Michael (Zack Gold), and he's servicing his addiction in a flophouse full of similarly addicted folk, almost all of whom are presently off inside themselves, far from

By Orla Smith. "When it hurts it means it's working". Those words, spoken by The Wound's withdrawn protagonist Xolani (Nakhane Touré), neatly summarises the cultural attitude the film depicts ― and rallies against. Director John Tengrove examines a South African tradition in the Xhosa community, designed to celebrate burgeoning manhood. Annually, teenage

By Marti Dols Roca. Historically there have been two ways of approaching sex related crimes on the seventh art: visually hinting what happened and dwelling on its consequences and implications or expounding on it leaving no room for the imagination and sometimes ending up closer to gore and sophisticated ultra violence

“Seventeen year old Miklós Varga’s plans to escape his migrant family and run away with his best friend Dan are crushed by the accidental death of his older brother Tomi. Only Mik knows the events that led to this tragedy, and he is suddenly forced to navigate his guilt and

By Marti Dols Roca. Seven years after the war in Sri Lanka, thousands of people are still missing. Most of them presumably dead. The mostly Tamil* families of the missing have held demonstrations to support their cause. Some of them have complained that they have been abducted or arrested by the