April 4, 2013

Wrecking Ball (2013) ****

Blurred Lines (2013) ****


That Wasn't Me (2013) ****

Shocking and powerful short film about child soldiers.

Epic Split (2013) ****


Pola (2013) ***

L'Ouragan fuck you tabarnak (2013) ***

Noah (2013) ***

Mémorable moi (2013) ***

Les Lézards (2013) ***

Justine And Charlie (2013) ***

Une Constitution (2013) ***

Quelqu'un d'extraordinaire (2013) ***

Clever film about young women bitching among themselves.

CaveDigger (2013) ***

Short documentary about an artist who digs and sculpts artificial caves.

Avant que de tout perdre (2013) ***

Suspenseful short about an abused wife trying to escape from her husband. Nominated both for an Academy Award and for a César Award.

Lady In Number 6: Music Saved My Life (2013) ***

Short documentary about Holocaust survivors.

Low Pro (2013) ***

Lover's Cave (2013) ***

Dems (2013) ***

Big Smoke (2013) ***

Nage (2013) ***


A pas de loup (2013) **

French short about a physically abused woman.

My Guide (2013) **

Amusing and touching Hungarian short about nagging wives and GPSs.

Ina Litovski (2013) **

Short Canadian film about a little girl who plays a violin.

La Fugue (2013) **

Interesting French short about the sentencing of a juvenile delinquent girl.

I Love YU (2013) **

Croatian short full of nostalgia for the good old days of Tito's Yugoslavia, but curiously apolitical.

A Grand Canal (2013) **

Short film about corruption in China.

Nous avions (2013) **

A Pakistani-Canadian family are having a picnic while watching planes landing.

The Voorman Problem (2013) **

Clever short about God and a psychiatrist.

Cell From Hell Episode 1 One Helluva Night (2013) **

Amusing and well-directed short about a cell phone.

Bar None (2013) **

Short film about a suicidal man going to a bar.

Mr Spontaneous (2013) **

Rather outrageous short film about a normal guy who becomes a crazy mass murderer.

Just As I Remember (2013) *

Short documentary about people suffering from Lou Gehrig's disease.

Penelope (2013) *

British short starring Juliet Stevenson as a woman who meets her rival in a café.

Callback (2013) *

A bisexual man is asked some very direct questions.

Blankets (2013) *

Short film from New Zealand.

Inertia (2013) *

Short film about fear and isolation.

The Pick Up (2013) *

A laundry, a guy trying to pick up a girl, a bromance.

Prison Terminal The Last Days of Private Jack Hall (2013) *

Short documentary about Jack Hall, a terminally ill octogenarian lifer at Iowa State Penitentiary. The film looks at the last six months of Jack's life and the creation of a hospice run by other inmates serving life sentences.

Red Light And Green Wine (2013) *

Short film about a gay sex worker.

Creative Masturbation (2013) *

South Korean short about a young student masturbating.

Gaspé Copper (2013) *

Enigmatic film about the need to kill a dog.

Helium (2013) *

Sad, melancholic short film about a dying boy and his fantasy world.

Truths And Liars (2013) *

Canadian short about corruption and Mafia.

Do I Have To Take Care Of Everything? (2013) *

Short comedy from Finland.

I Missed My Mother's Funeral (2013) *

Bizarre British short film about a father, his son and an inexplicable police intervention.

Get A Horse! (2013) ****

Terrific pastiche of the old Mickey Mouse cartoons in black and white, with plenty of more colorful surprises in store.

Possessions (2013) ***

Japanese cartoon set in a haunted house.

Room On The Broom (2013) ***

British cartoon about a witch, a cat, a dog, a bird, a frog and a dragon.

Gloria Victoria (2013) ***

Excellent animated short about war and destruction.

Mr Hublot (2013) ***

Visually impressive cartoon nominated for an Oscar.

Subconscious Password (2013) ***

Le Jour nous ecoute (2013) ***

Impromptu (2013) ***

Hollow Land (2013) ***

Feral (2013) ***

Errance (2013) ***


Passing (2013) **

Animated film about love and loss.

The End Of Pinky (2013) **

A film noir animated short from Canada.

Le Courant faible de la rivière (2013) *

Boring cartoon from Quebec.

Mary And Myself (2013) *

Documentary animated short about comfort women.