I feel like everyone in this film is... moving... in... slow... motion.

A couple of problems, besides the predictability:

1. The first scene in the diner is clearly a Sunday, but later in the film we see a sign on the front of the diner that says it's closed on Sundays.

2. Why introduce that poor woman who's about to lose everything because she can't pay the bills, and then never return to her and help her out? That was…

Getting to see this in a cinema for the first time was an absolute dream - and not only that, selected as part of DIFF by Oscar-nominated animator Nora Twomey (who talked about the film’s influence on The Breadwinner) with beautiful live piano score performed by Conor Linehan.

I’ve had a longstanding love for Lotte Reiniger, her beautiful work, and her foundational impact on animation without managing to watch anything outside of Thumbalina to date - and this was the first…

This is a beautiful but painfully sad documentary about a team of wonderful high school girls who dream of changing their country for the better. What I like about this film is that it takes a childlike viewpoint of the events it covers. This isn't an in-depth exploration of the ideology behind the political sides in Afghanistan (or, for the matter, in the US). What matters is simply whether or not individual people and groups make decisions that are helpful…

I've been meaning to submerge myself in Albert Serra's work for an age and lo - DIFF miraculously announced they'd have him in attendance.

Serra took to the floor to introduce the film, sunglasses firmly in place, contextualising his interest in making this film in saying that what was important to him was documentary as a way to gain privileged access to something that has never been seen or heard before - that people really behave in a mysterious way…