All articles by Boyd van Hoeij
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Reviews‘Bearcave’ review: Lyrical, overlong debut follows two queer women in rural Greece
Venice Giornate degli Autori Europa Cinemas Label winner makes its home debut at Thessaloniki
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Reviews‘Last Night I Conquered The City Of Thebes’ review: Intriguing Spanish debut explores platonic male intimacy
Galicia’s ancient Roman baths make an atmospheric setting for this wordy drama
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Reviews‘Gorgona’ review: Dystopian Greek queer feminist fable is entertaining but uneven
Evi Kalogiropoulou’s debut plays Thessaloniki after its Venice Critics Week debut
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Reviews‘Another Man’ review: A gay man suffers an identity crisis in intimate, earnest Catalan drama
David Moragas’s authentic follow-up to ‘A Stormy Night’ premieres in Thessaloniki
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Reviews‘Beachcomber’ review: ‘Dogtooth’ star Christos Passalis anchors enigmatic Greek coastal drama
Director Aristotelis Maragkos was inspired by the work of symbolist sailor-poet Nikos Kavvadias
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Reviews‘The Last One For The Road’ review: Francesco Sossai’s bittersweet comedy-drama follows a trio of Italian drinkers
Italy’s fading Veneto region plays host to Sossai’s effective arthouse drama
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Reviews‘Whitetail’ review: Natasha O’Keeffe impresses in Nanouk Leopold’s haunting Irish drama
The Dutch director’s latest feature plays Thessaloniki after its Toronto premiere
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Reviews‘Barrio Triste’ review: Colombian-American photographer Stillz sets his debut in 1980s Medellin
Harmony Korine produces the unfocused feature about disaffected kids, which premieres in Venice Horizons
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Reviews‘Lost Land’ review: Two young siblings from Myanmar journey alone in search of a better life
Well-intentioned Venice Horizons title from Japanese filmmaker Akio Fujimoto is first-ever Rohingya-language feature
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Reviews‘The Last Viking’ review: Mads Mikkelsen stars in Anders Thomas Jensen’s wry Danish comedy
Mikkelsen plays the traumatised brother of a criminal looking for his loot
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Reviews‘Calle Malaga’ review: Carmen Maura stars in Maryam Touzani’s tame Tangier-set domestic drama
Moroccan filmmaker Touzani follows ‘The Blue Caftan’ with a predictable story about finding things to live for in old age
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Reviews‘The Girls We Want’ review: Inner-city kids fumble in Marseille-set debut
The return of a prodigal daughter upsets the balance in Prïncia Car’s collaborative Directors Fortnight title
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Reviews‘Militantropos’ review: The invasion of Ukraine through the prism of everyday life
Observational documentary starts in 2022, taking a Wiseman-like approach to a country at war
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Reviews‘Imago’ review: Critics’ week doc looks at a Chechen enclave in Georgia
Filmmaker Déni Oumar Pitsaev visits the picturesque Pankissi valley in search of his roots
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Reviews‘I Only Rest In The Storm’ review: Pedro Pinho visits neo-colonialism in Guinea-Bissau
A Portuguese engineer becomes embroiled with two locals while working in Guinea-Bissa
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Reviews‘Lesbian Space Princess’ review: Queer Australian animation could be a crowdpleaser
Emma Hough Hobbs and Leela Varghese’s debut is set in a gaylaxy far, far away
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Reviews‘Ari’ review: Léonor Serraille delivers an engaging Rohmer-style drama
Lille-set piece is the third film from the director of ’Montparnasse Bienvenue’
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Reviews‘Night Stage’ review: Sexy queer drama from Brazil has thematic smarts to match
Felipe Matzembacher and Marcio Reolon’s third feature premieres in Berlin’s Panorama
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Reviews‘La Jetée, The Fifth Shot’: DOK Leipzig Review
Meandering doc explores a personal connection to Chris Marker’s 1962 short La Jetée
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Reviews‘Jane Austen Wrecked My Life’: Review
A kooky contemporary French riff on the famed 18th century British novelist