Contributions from Patrick Gamble | Little White Lies

Contributor Patrick Gamble

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Festivals

The Shadowless Tower – first-look review

by Patrick Gamble

Inspired by a friend­ship with a young pho­tog­ra­ph­er, a mid­dle-aged man liv­ing in Bei­jing recon­nects with his estranged father in Zhang Lü’s poignant drama.
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Festivals

Exploring empathy through virtual reality at LFF

by Patrick Gamble

The 2022 LFF Expand­ed pro­gramme fea­tured a num­ber of vir­tu­al real­i­ty expe­ri­ences which aimed to con­nect audi­ences and film­mak­ers more than ever.
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Festivals

This year’s Berlinale Forum grappled with humanity’s fraught place in the world

by Patrick Gamble

Emerg­ing from the pan­dem­ic, film­mak­ers exper­i­ment­ed with form and nar­ra­tive to pose deep­er ques­tions about our past, present and future.
Horses grazing in a grassy field surrounded by trees and a wooden fence.
Festivals

The United States of America – first-look review

by Patrick Gamble

A doc­u­men­tary mas­ter presents an updat­ed por­trait of the USA, draw­ing on his pre­vi­ous ver­sion first released in 1975.
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Immersive and inspiring music documentaries to look out for in 2021

by Patrick Gamble

Sound­Cloud rap­pers and a for­got­ten folk singer took cen­tre stage at this year’s CPH:DOX.
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Festivals

Ballad of a White Cow – first-look review

by Patrick Gamble

Behtash Sanaee­ha and Maryam Moghaddam’s dra­ma takes a dim view of Iran’s dis­crim­i­na­to­ry jus­tice system.
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Festivals

10 highlights from the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2019

by Patrick Gamble

Space dogs, mus­cle men and a Sovi­et cin­e­ma icon were at the fore­front of this year’s event.
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Festivals

15 years on, the Romanian New Wave is still a force to be reckoned with

by Patrick Gamble

This year’s Tran­syl­va­nia Inter­na­tion­al Film Fes­ti­val show­cased a wealth of home­grown talent.
Horseback riders on a rocky, mountainous landscape with horses and tents in the background.
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The 10 best films from Tallinn Black Nights 2018

by Patrick Gamble

A Tibetan road movie and Germany’s answer to Kids were among the high­lights at this year’s POFF.
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Festivals

The best films from the Transilvania International Film Festival 2018

by Patrick Gamble

This year’s fes­ti­val offered lib­er­at­ing explo­rations of iden­ti­ty in Adi­na Pintilie’s Touch Me Not and Sebastián Lelio’s Disobedience.
A woman with a large, curly Afro hairstyle poses against a backdrop of a red sunset, snow-capped mountains, and a colourful cityscape. She wears a floral-patterned jacket and has her hands raised in a gesture. The image has a vibrant, psychedelic aesthetic.
Festivals

The best new music documentaries to look out for this year

by Patrick Gamble

Films about Bet­ty Davis, Ryuichi Sakamo­to and Mil­ford Graves were among the high­lights of the 15th edi­tion of IndieLisboa.
Elderly couple riding a blue motorcycle with sidecar through a desert landscape.
Festivals

10 highlights from the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival

by Patrick Gamble

The con­flict between tra­di­tion and moder­ni­ty came to the fore at Estonia’s largest film event.