Medusa (Medusa, Brazil 2021) is a dystopian satire of how right-wing politics in Brazil – with its extremism and patent misogyny – can affect society. Like Kleber Mendonça Filho’s excellent Bacurau (2019), Anita Rocha da Silveira invigorating second feature... Read Article
Gonzalo Maza’s Ella Es Cristina (2019, Chile), featured on the programme of Raindance Film Festival 2020, is an endearing romantic comedy about the bonds of female friendship. Cristina (Mariana Derderián) is coming to terms with separating from an... Read Article
Not often do you stay in your seat to read every name in the end credits of a film. I wasn’t looking out for a friend’s or a well-known producer’s letters, checking for that cameo title, or waking... Read Article
Princesita follows Tamara, a 12-year-old girl growing up in a cult in the rural south of Chile, being groomed towards leading the group, or rather, towards bearing the next leader. The film opened Raindance Film Festival on Wednesday... Read Article
