Tag: Festival Coverage

“Alvorada | TAKE ONE | Sheffield Doc/Fest 2021 Watch Online” In THE EDGE OF DEMOCRACY, director Petra Costa’s camera flows through the sleek and spacious rooms of the Palácio da Alvorada, Brazil’s presidential residence designed by modernist architect Oscar Niemeyer, in slow travelling shots. As the camera traipses around the empty, noiseless halls and doorways,…

“Scarecrow | TAKE ONE | Rotterdam 2021 Watch Online” The Sakha Republic (Yakutia) in far northeastern Russia is far removed from the political, social, linguistic, and cosmopolitan realities of Moscow or St Petersburg. In this environment, a local cinema culture has flourished, and Dmitry Davydov’s SCARECROW (PUGALO) brings Sakha cinema to an international audience at…

“Edinburgh Shorts: Guilt, Then Absolution? | TAKE ONE Watch Online” GUILT, THEN ABSOLUTION? is a diverse program about sin and reconciliation, boasting a variety of genres and screening as part of the postponed 2020 Edinburgh Short Film Festival. Writer/director Marie McCourt’s I WAS STILL THERE WHEN YOU LEFT ME is undoubtedly the strongest entry, with…

“Edinburgh Shorts: Escape Plan | TAKE ONE Watch Online” If there’s one running theme of the absolute tyre fire that was the year 2020, it’s that we always need ways to escape. As such, it’s suitable that this block of the long-postponed 2020 Edinburgh Short Film Festival focuses on this very topic. Compiling an eclectic…

“Cowboys | TAKE ONE | BFI Flare 2021 Watch Online” Anna Kerrigan’s new film, COWBOYS, is a touching story about accepting who your children are, that uses the masculine norms of the cinematic depiction of cowboys to situate its discussion about gender identity and gender presentation. Buoyed by strong performances showing a father-son relationship, it’s…

“Scottish Competition 3: Care to Express | TAKE ONE Watch Online” The Care to Express programme aims to look at the ways in which “art, passion and care work together to enrich our lives.” The five films in the programme present a world of culture, environment and art during a turbulent year. Music producer Patrick…

“Bill Douglas Award 5: Connection Signals | TAKE ONE Watch Online” The Bill Douglas Award concentrates on innovative and new cinema, and the fifth instalment of the programme, Connection Signals, focuses specifically on routines, patterns, and codes to express socio-cultural effects and influences. IN HER STEPS follows Lena, who is now in a reintegration programme…

“Enfant Terrible | TAKE ONE Watch Online” ENFANT TERRIBLE is an energetic, timely and fitting biopic of the notorious, provocative and iconic German filmmaker Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Making a film about the life and death of Rainer Fassbinder – a filmmaker so impossibly prolific that culture critic Ian Penman referred to the postwar cinematic landscape…

“Jump, Darling | TAKE ONE Watch Online” JUMP, DARLING – Phil Connell’s debut feature – is a charming indie flick that sails across a choppy sea of tumultuous tones, with the right amount of buoyancy to echo the beautifully haunting elements of loss and reinvention throughout Connell’s screenplay. JUMP, DARLING twists the formula of quirky…

“Colors of Tobi | TAKE ONE Watch Online” COLORS OF TOBI follows a Hungarian family supporting their son, Tobi, as he becomes an adult and explores his gender identity. Alexa Bakony’s documentary focuses on the relationship between Tobi and his mother, Éva, as they navigate a maze of Hungarian bureaucracy for gender changes, shifting norms…