Solitary – Doc/Fest 2016 Review Phil W. Bayles June 12, 2016 Reviews The first thing you notice about Red Onion State Prison in Virginia is the noise: the low boom of fists banging on metal doors as prisoners scream and bellow like wounded animals. These prisoners are in...
Varicella – Doc/Fest 2016 Review Ellen Dwyer June 11, 2016 Reviews Varicella is a tender snapshot of two young sisters training to be solo ballerinas at Russia’s most prestigious ballet school. The central tension of the film is whether Nastya (12) and Polina (7) will...
Kedi – Doc/Fest 2016 Review Phil W. Bayles June 10, 2016 Reviews It's been said that the age of the Internet has much in common with Ancient Egypt: everybody spends their time writing on walls and worshipping cats. Ceyda Torun’s film Kedi seems at first to be an...