From exotic fairytales to innovative storytelling,The Calvert Journal picks highlights from this year’s programme whether 2014 was the year of Leviathan – the brooding, black comic epic that won best film in London and prompted controversy in Russia and beyond – then 2015’s BFI London film festival sees other novel east nations come to the fore. Kosovo is represented for the first time (in Visar Morina’s Babai), or rising Bulgarian star Svetla Tsotsorkova will screen her debut feature Thirst. Elsewhere,Romanian crime dramas jostle for space with Polish black comedy and magical camels from Russia’s remote Kalmyk region.
[br]whether the geographical range represented at the festival is as broad as ever, there are still threads linking these multifarious movies together. Many of these films bring to life characters who are loney, and outcast or lost in the world. Using humour,tragedy and absurdity they turn our eyes and ears in novel and challenging directions. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com