An old friend of Isola Cinema, the Taiwan-based master Tsai Ming-Liang, has — after the success of his latest film I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (Hei yan quan), shot as part of the New Crowned Hope project — embarked on an expensive new project titled Face. » read more

Our friend Cis Bierinckx has been appointed general and artistic director of the Brussels-based interdisciplinary arts centre with the –to the non-Dutch speaking– unpronounceable name, the Beursschouwburg.
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On January 4th Otok is releasing Olivier Assayas’s Clean in the Slovene art house cinema network.
The film tells the story of Emily, the widow of a rock star killed by an overdose, who is trying to rebuild her life. When she gets out of prison where she was being held on drugs charges, Emily is determined to get her son back from her parents-in-law. “She discovers herself when she frees herself of everything that is imagined about her,” explains the director. “If there is one overriding idea for this film, it comes from the desire to show that change is possible, that one can become a new person, and that we are not forever chained to our past.” » read more