Ondřej Provazník’s Broken Voices has won the German Independence Award for best film at this year’s Oldenburg International Film Festival. The Czech drama, inspired by real events, follows…
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Read more ‘Baby Brother’ Review: Superb Performances and Audacious Style Anchor a Brutal Portrait of Generational TraumaNot since Bicycle Thieves has a film focused so determinedly on the theft of a bike as James, receiving its world premiere at the Oldenburg Film Festival. Which…
Read more ‘James’ Review: A Slight but Enjoyably Quirky Journey Into Vancouver’s Criminal UnderbellyWhen Torsten Neumann launched the Oldenburg Film Festival back in 1994, setting up the event as Germany’s answer to Sundance, it was near the peak of the ’90s…
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