Effata - Review

Let's prepare  ourselves to open the doors to a new dimension.

Kaleidoscopic images welcome us into this shining fairy universe where music pervades our soul and passes through us. 

Let's abandon the suffocating modernity that surrounds us to make room for an almost fantastic reality without time and space,  where nature and peace are masters and guests.

Effata ,written and directed by the talented and sensitive composer Anaya Kunst aka Anaya(AnayaMusic) Kunst,  is a beautiful journey that warms  heart, mind and eyes.

A sort of promised paradise to those who really want to evolve and shine.

So elegant and splendidly edited, this experimental film is a cosmic breath, a gift for those who are looking  for a transcendental moment of  inner peace, meditation far from the frenzy that suffocates us, and from the rhythms that torment us.

Traveling has never been so captivating!

Intense  and touching, Landslide,  feature film directed by Zsolt Pozsgai, transports us to the desolate countryside of an early twentieth-century Hungary afflicted by poverty and brutal laws.

Families crushed by hunger, cold atmospheres and equally cold sensations crowd the images of this film that, just like a bucolic painting, reveals all the colors of life, from the most vivid to the darkest.

At the center of the story are a couple of parents, Janos and Juli, who discover to expecting a second child; as beautiful as it is, the news turns the lives of the two young people upside down since the law categorically prohibits couples from having more than one child.

Forced by her parents to get rid of the child she is carrying, Juli will enter a spiral of pain and shame, a drama that will end up affecting her marriage and great faith in God, the same God who blessed her with a new pregnancy and to whom she will ask what to do with her life.

Masterfully played by all the actors, among which the charismatic Gábor Koncz and the splendid Iren Bordan stand out as the impeccable and icy parents of the sweet Juli (Andrea Koncz), Landslide  is a film full of poetry, anger, spirituality , love and ancient beliefs.

Based on a novel written by János Kodolányi that in almost all of his dramas deals with the problems of the Hungarian people, Zsolt Pozsgai manages to make us breathe the air of those distant times, making us appreciate every moment, even the tragic ones.

Absolutely worth seeing!

Be careful how you judge others… one day you may have to judge yourself

Between comedy and horror. EP\2, written and directed by Nathan Alan Thomas, is adrenaline and madness.

What seems to start out as a sketch about braggarts with little desire to work, turns beautifully into a suspenseful thriller.

Kyle (Kyle Gregory) judges the films he receives at the Festival he works for;  the Hossfest Director, (Luke St. Germain) seems intent only on making money by mocking the dreams of filmmakers without caring of the effort, passion and hope that lie behind each entry.

However, an email surprises them. 

The director EP (Paolo Ricci) demands attention, because his film must be seen carefully, without cheating, until the end...

But who is EP ? A filmmaker? An avenger? ... a psycho?

From a simple judge of a film festival, Kyle will soon find himself trapped in a cruel script where it seems very difficult to find a way out.

Expertly edited EP\2 is a film within a film, a sadistic game, a hunt for the guilty, with a fast-paced pace and colorful video game atmospheres.

The metal music of Swampgrave is splendid, the notes of Asylum by Cody Martin are disturbing and hypnotic, and the alienating and incisive Blunt Smoke Interlude by Bonginator is absolutely perfect,with the neon lights.

After all, Cinema is a matter of life and death… sometimes.

Where do we end up when our earthly life ends? Are we really finished? Or do we find ourselves catapulted into an unknown dimension where only the dead can see and hear us?

Anima written, directed and starring Pat Pascale is a short film that explores the greatest curiosity of the human being: life after death, the passage, the after.

Romano (Pat Pascale) is a young man who, tired of having to live with an illness, commits suicide and finds himself exactly in the world he lived in... but in black and white, suspended in this dimension of uncertainty, immobility and bewilderment.  

In this new existence he will meet Dennis (Berk Karabay) the one who calmly and carefree will lead him to the discovery and difficult acceptance of his new state, teaching him to say goodbye to the past and to detach himself from everything that was earthly, including his girlfriend Natalia (Elisa Krasniqi) who finds herself facing her pain alone... in color.

A delicately directed short film that deals with the most complicated of enigmas with great simplicity. Good Job!