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This film was previously reviewed in August 2020 as part of our Fantasia Festival coverage. Barry (Gary Green), an abusive drug-addict, is on yet another bender after an argument with his wife. After...

Bleed With Me, from writer-director Amelia Moses, is a terrifying fever dream that makes you question everything you thought you knew, filled with beautiful imagery and a lot of blood. Timid and...

“In Hindu custom, it is ritually prescribed that a son must perform his father’s last rites.” This sentence hangs on the screen, setting up for the rest of Sidharth Srinivasan’s Kriya, a film that...

“I want to lead an important life, I want to do it because I was born a human being.” This powerful line from The Five Rules of Success by writer-director Orson Oblowitz perfectly encompasses the point of...

“As long as someone’s alive, there is always hope.” During the Cold War in 1962, Taiwan was under martial law, where those who subverted the government by speaking out about freedom or reading banned...

By now, everyone has surely seen Pepe the Frog at least once, whether it be whilst scrolling innocently through the web or even stumbling upon it on the news or late night talk shows. What most people aren’t...

The very idea that human beings may one day be rendered obsolete by improving technology is a hard concept to swallow. Sofian Khan’s short film, Doppelbänger, transports us into the future, where there...

What’s scarier than a satanic cult? A men’s rights group. Mariel Sharp and Kaye Adelaide, directors and producers, present Don’t Text Back, a horror short made by a group of women and LGBTQ+ artists....

Kana Yamada’s directorial debut, Life: Untitled, begins with a jarring opening where the viewer is addressed directly by a young woman standing there without a shirt, and is asked, “is my life worth...

What do you do if you can’t tell if you’re awake or still stuck in a dream? Michael Venus’ never-ending nightmare, Sleep (Schlaf), opens with Marlene (Sandra Hüller), a woman who suffers from horrible...

The tone of Lars Damoiseaux’s Yummy is set when it begins with a bus full of men looking out the window to stare at a woman’s breasts in the car beside them. This objectification of women carries on...