Debanjan Dhar

Oct 30, 2024 | highonfilms.com | Debanjan Dhar

The Greek Orpheus-Eurydice myth is repurposed into a rollicking and plaintive musical in Paolo Gep Cucco and Davide Livermore’s The...

Oct 20, 2023 | highonfilms.com | Debanjan Dhar

“It was a strange time, with strange things and strange people”, the narrator recounts Hong Kong of the 1960s, perfectly setting the stone for this moody, meandering short film directed by Bo Wang. While there is an invitation to suspend a modicum of disbelief, An Asian Ghost Story (2023) is strongly tethered to the fractious cross currents of history. Wang glides through time as loosely and fluidly as do ghosts across lands and continents.

Oct 19, 2023 | highonfilms.com | Debanjan Dhar

Hovhannes Ishkhanyan’s documentary – Beauty And The Lawyer has one of the most unique couples as its subjects. Set in Armenia, we follow the lives of Garik and Hasmik, from their wedding to celebrating their son’s first Christmas. As it transpires soon, Garik has been a drag artist for a decade, his queer avatar as Carabina a sensation, dabbles in sex work and also puts up autobiographical solo theatre acts that attempt to make sense of the immense queerphobia that is entrenched all around him.

Oct 17, 2023 | highonfilms.com | Debanjan Dhar

In Kaouther Ben Hania’s documentary – Four Daughters, fact and fiction are interpellated to mixed results. Under the film’s meta-fictional gaze, the subjects, a Tunisian family devastated by the decision of its two daughters to join ISIS, seek some sort of closure, hoping to have a better understanding of how things came to pass to their present circumstances.

Oct 14, 2023 | highonfilms.com | Debanjan Dhar

Above everything, Rodrigo Moreno is a filmmaker who does not take kindly to genre conventions. In this new film, you can almost sense him willing to take challenging jabs at the viewer if you attempt to fold the tale he presents, both luxuriously and frustratingly over three hours, into expected twists and turns.