Making more and more inroads into auteur world cinema with the likes of Fernando Eimbcke, Michel Franco and Lance Hammer, Greenwich Entertainment have now completed some post-Cannes shopping landing the remarkable feature debut and Cannes Critics’ Week winner in Zou Jing‘s A Girl Unknown. Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize and the Gan Foundation Award, this just won the CineVision competition prize for Best International Film by an Emerging Director. This could play at TIFF, NYFF and several regional film fests before it’s eventual theatrical release. We had the chance to speak to the filmmaker while in Cannes – you can find that interview below.… Read the rest
It’s difficult not to feel a sense of schadenfreude in following the drastic downfall of a long-married Bulgarian couple in Black Money for White Nights, the latest from directing duo 
There’s a short list of feature length queer films in Czech cinema, and one would have to search even harder for narratives not steeped in despair or defined by (at least a sense of) miserabilism. With his fourth feature, Chica Checa (which means ‘Czech Girl’), director Šimon Holý formulates something of a hopeful novelty with a coming out narrative which might seem familiar but is bolstered by homegrown specificities bolstering its impact. Parallel perspectives focusing on a mother and son who at last give themselves the opportunity to live out loud assist in skirting around predictable beats, while Holý showcases Pavla Tomicová in an exceptional performance.… 
