Raindance Roundup

Clare Clarke Pick of the Festival: Hortensia Choosing a highlight for me from this Raindance festival was difficult because most of the films I saw were incredibly well made and all very different. However, there was something particularly special about Hortensia. The film was quirky and wildly funny, in a way that has kept me chuckling…

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A Double Life

A Double Life is a beautiful film, plain and simple. It is the first feature length directed by filmmaker Yoshiyuki Kishi; slowly paced, the film is the spellbinding story of a post-graduate student, Tama (Mugi Kadowaki), who is assigned by her professor (Lily Franky) to follow and report on the daily routine of a stranger…

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