Return to Oz (1985)

RecommendedUSA/UKFeature FilmDirector: Walter MurchWriters: Gill Dennis, Walter Murch, L. Frank BaumCinematographer: David WatkinComposer: David ShireCast: Fairuza Balk, Nicol Williamson, Jean Marsh, Piper Laurie, Matt Clark, Sean Barrett, Denise Bryer, Brian Henson, Lyle Conway, Emma RidleyBased on Baum’s novels The Land of Oz (1904) and Ozma of Oz (1907), which follow on from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), which was loosely adapted as The Wizard...

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I Am Slave (2010)

Cautiously RecommendedUKTelevision FilmDirector: Gabriel RangeWriter: Jeremy BrockCinematographer: Robbie RyanComposers: Harry Escott, Molly NymanCast: Wunmi Mosaku, Isaach De Bankolé, Lubna Azabal, Igal Naor, Natalie Mgmoi, Hiam AbbassA Sudanese princess, abducted from her small village during the civil war, spends six years living as a slave in North Africa, before being sent to London, where her misery continues; all the while, her devoted father...

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Dead Man (1995)

Highly RecommendedUSA/Germany/JapanFeature FilmWriter/Director: Jim JarmuschCinematographer: Robby MüllerComposer: Neil YoungCast: Johnny Depp, Gary Farmer, Lance Henriksen, Michael Wincott, Eugene Byrd, Robert Mitchum, John Hurt, Mili AvitalAn unassuming accountant from Cleveland kills a man in self-defence, and goes on the run, accompanied by a poetry loving Indian named Nobody, when he is accused of murder by the deceased's powerful industrialist...

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Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)

Highly RecommendedFranceFeature FilmOriginal Title: Boudu sauvé des eauxDirector: Jean RenoirWriter: Jean Renoir, Albert Valentin, René FauchoisCinematographers: Georges Asselin, Marcel LucienCast: Michel Simon, Charles Granval, Marcelle Hainia, Sévérine Lerczinska, Jean Gehret, Max Dalban, Jean DastéAfter losing his dog, Boudu, an innocent vagrant, jumps suicidally into the Seine, but is saved by a well-meaning bookseller, who, feeling responsible...

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King of the Hill (2007)

Not RecommendedSpainFeature FilmOriginal Title: El rey de la montañaDirector: Gonzalo López-GallegoWriters: Javier Gullón, Gonzalo López-GallegoCinematographer: José David MonteroComposer: David CrespoCast: Leonardo Sbaraglia, María Valverde, Thomas Riordan, Andrés Juste, Pablo Menasanch, Francisco Olmo, Manuel Sánchez RamosA man and a woman, who have just met at a country a petrol station, find themselves running for their lives through a leafy...

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Love + Hate (2005)

Cautiously RecommendedUKFeature FilmWriter/Director: Dominic SavageCinematographer: Barry AckroydComposer: Rupert Gregson-WilliamsCast: Samina Awan, Tom Hudson, Nichola Burley, Was Zakir, Dean Andrews, Aliya Bhatti, Peter O'Connor, Ryan LeslieDespite being overly reliant on coincidence, and containing one or two rather trite musical choices, television director Savage’s handsomely photographed big screen debut – a tale of illicit teenaged romance,...

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Peppermint Candy (1999)

RecommendedSouth KoreanFeature FilmOriginal Title: 박하사탕Writer/Director: Lee Chang-dongCinematographer: Kim Hyeong-KuComposer: Lee Jae-JinCast: Sol Kyung-Koo, Kim Yeo-jin, Mun So-Ri, Jung Suh, Park Ji-yeon, Park Se-beom, Lee Dae-yeon, Kim Kyoung-ikLee’s visceral, highly affecting little gem, told in reverse order, follows a broken-down, failed businessman (Sol, outstanding) from his booze-sodden, rail track suicide, back through twenty years of pain...

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Chéri (2009)

Not RecommendedUK/Cayman Islands/France/GermanyFeature FilmDirector/Narrator: Stephen FrearsWriters: Christopher Hampton, ColetteCinematographer: Darius KhondjiComposer: Alexandre DesplatCast: Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend, Kathy Bates, Felicity JonesIn Frears’s mildly diverting (in a continental lager advert sort of way) though half-baked and curiously undramatic film, a very wealthy middle-aged prostitute struggles to come to terms with the...

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Spiral (2007)

RecommendedUSAFeature FilmDirectors: Adam Green, Joel David MooreWriters: Jeremy Danial Boreing, Joel David MooreCinematographer: Will BarrattComposers: Todd Caldwell, Michael 'Fish' HerringCast: Joel David Moore, Amber Tamblyn, Zachary LeviAfter disposing of his current muse (possibly messily), Mason, a shy telesalesman with a passion for jazz and painting, strikes up an unlikely friendship with the bubbly new girl at work, who agrees to be his...

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The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009)

Cautiously RecommendedUKFeature FilmWriter/Director: J BlakesonCinematographer: Philipp BlaubachComposer: Marc CanhamCast: Gemma Arterton, Martin Compston, Eddie MarsanA pair of n’er-do-wells kidnap the daughter of a multi-millionaire, and keep her strapped to a bed in a soundproofed flat, whilst they wait for her father to pay the two million pound ransom; but, as hidden motivations are revealed, things begin to go horribly wrong, in Blakeson’s...

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Convict 99 (1938)

Highly RecommendedUKFeature FilmDirector: Marcel VarnelWriters: Jack Davis Jr., Ralph Smart, Marriott Edgar, Val Guest, Cyril CampionCinematographer: Arthur CrabtreeCast: Will Hay, Moore Marriott, Graham Moffatt, Googie Withers, Peter Gawthorne, Basil Radford, Dennis Wyndham, Wilfred Walter, Alf Goddard, Basil McGrailClick for revi...

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Champagne Charlie (1944)

Not RecommendedUKFeature FilmDirector: Alberto CavalcantiWriters: John Dighton, Angus MacPhail, Austin MelfordCinematographer: Wilkie CooperComposers: Una Bart, T.E.B. Clarke, Frank Eyton, Noel Gay, Ernest Irving, Billy Mayerl, Lord BernersCast: Tommy Trinder, Stanley Holloway, Betty Warren, Jean Kent, Austin Trevor, Peter De Greef, Leslie Clarke, Eddie PhillipsThis beautifully crafted if generally lacklustre Ealing musical-comedy provides a highly...

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Micmacs (2009)

Not RecommendedFranceFeature FilmOriginal Title: Mic macs à tire-larigotDirector: Jean-Pierre JeunetWriters: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Guillaume LaurantCinematographer: Nagata TetsuoComposer: Raphaël BeauCast: Dany Boon, André Dussollier, Nicolas Marié, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Yolande Moreau, Julie Ferrier, Omar Sy, Dominique PinonA man with a bullet lodged in his brain, with the help of his band of misfit, oddball friends, attempts to gain vengeance upon...

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Life During Wartime (2009)

Cautiously RecommendedUSAFeature FilmWriter/Director: Todd SolondzCinematographer: Edward LachmanCast: Shirley Henderson, Allison Janney, Ally Sheedy, Renée Taylor, Ciarán Hinds, Michael Kenneth Williams, Dylan Riley Snyder, Paul Reubens, Michael Lerner, Rich PecciSolondz’s diverting but relatively disappointing film reacquaints us with the Jordans and Maplewoods from Happiness (1999) and the Wieners from Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995), as he weaves...

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Happiness (1998)

Highly RecommendedUSAFeature FilmWriter/Director: Todd SolondzCinematographer: Maryse AlbertiComposer: Robbie KondorCast: Jane Adams, Cynthia Stevenson, Lara Flynn Boyle, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Dylan Baker, Louise Lasser, Ben Gazzara, Camryn Manheim, Jared Harris, Rufus ReadWith its deliciously ironically romantic score, brave, wholehearted performances, and pitch-black, razor-sharp script, Solondz’s pathos-dripping portrait of three middle-class...

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The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)

Highly RecommendedUSAFeature FilmWriter/Director: Woody AllenCinematographer: Gordon WillisComposer: Dick HymanCast: Mia Farrow, Jeff Daniels, Danny Aiello, Irving Metzman, Edward Herrmann, Dianne Wiest, Alexander CohenWhen a supporting character in a Hollywood film steps down off the screen, declaring his love for a sad-eyed patron, and stating his intention to not return, in the process terrifying his studio and the actor who played him, the object...

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The Killer Inside Me (2010)

Cautiously RecommendedUK/Canada/USAFeature FilmDirector: Michael WinterbottomWriters: John Curran, Michael Winterbottom, Jim ThompsonCinematographer: Marcel ZyskindComposer: Melissa ParmenterCast: Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Jessica Alba, Ned Beatty, Elias Koteas, Tom Bower, Simon Baker, Bill Pullman, Brent Briscoe, Matthew Maher, Liam Aiken, Jay R. FergusonThose not familiar with Jim Thompson’s 1952 novel may well find themselves struggling to understand...

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CFB's Top 30 Obscure Films of 1939 (2010)

Ask a Policeman (1939)Union Pacific (1939)Peace on Earth (1939)Ugly Duckling (1939)The Cat and the Canary (1939)You Can’t Cheat an Honest Man (1939)The Rains Came (1939)Juarez (1939)Charlie Chan at Treasure Island (1939)On Borrowed Time (1939)The Spy in Black (1939)Stanley and Livingstone (1939)They Made Me a Criminal (1939)Miracles For Sale (1939)It’s a Wonderful World (1939)The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)Magokoro (1939)Pieges (1939)Confessions...

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CFB's Top 30 Films of 1939 (2010)

The Wizard of Oz (1939)Gone with the Wind (1939)Stagecoach (1939)La Règle du Jeu (1939)Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)Only Angles Have Wings (1939)Wuthering Heights (1939)Ninotchka (1939)The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)Midnight (1939)Destry Rides Again (1939)Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)The Roaring Twenties (1939)Le Jour se Lève (1939)The Women (1939)Beau Geste (1939)The Four Feathers (1939)Gunga Din (1939)The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)Young...

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White Lightnin' (2009)

RecommendedUK/CroatiaFeature FilmDirector: Dominic MurphyWriters: Eddy Moretti, Shane SmithCinematographer: Tim Maurice-JonesCast: Edward Hogg, Carrie Fisher, Owen Campbell, Muse WatsonMurphy’s exhaustingly wholehearted feature debut provides a highly fictionalised account of the life of The Outlaw Dancer Jesco White, detailing his upbringing in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia, where, between spells of imprisonment and commitment, he indulged...

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Rage (2009)

Cautiously RecommendedUK/USAFeature FilmWriter/Director: Sally PotterCinematographer: Steven FierbergComposers: Fred Frith, Sally PotterCast: Simon Abkarian, Patrick J. Adams, Riz Ahmed, Bob Balaban, Adriana Barraza, Steve Buscemi, Jakob Cedergren, Lily Cole, Judi Dench, Eddie Izzard, Jude Law, John Leguizamo, David Oyelowo, Dianne WiestPresented as a series of monologues filmed against an ever changing brightly coloured backdrop, Potter’s typically...

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Nightwatching (2007)

RecommendedUK/Canada/The Netherlands/PolandFeature FilmWriter/Director: Peter GreenawayCinematographer: Reinier van BrummelenComposer: Wlodzimierz PawlikCast: Martin Freeman, Emily Holmes, Eva Birthistle, Jodhi May, Natalie PressAs much an examination of a painting and its creation as it is a portrait of its creator (Dutch master Rembrandt, a surprisingly excellent Freeman) and the women in his life (Holmes, Birthistle, May, and Press), Greenaway’s...

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No One Knows About Persian Cats (2009)

Cautiously RecommendedIranFeature FilmOriginal Title: کسی از گربه های ایرانی خبر ندارهDirector: Bahman GhobadiWriters: Bahman Ghobadi, Hossein Mortezaeiyan, Roxana SaberiCinematographer: Turaj MansuriComposers: Mahdyar Aghajani, Ash KooshaCast: Negar Shaghaghi, Ashkan Koshanejad, Hamed Behdad, Take It Easy Hospital, Rana Farhan, Hichkas, The Yellow Dogs BandA pair of underground indie rock musicians, who have been booked to play a gig in London,...

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Next Stop Wonderland (1998)

Highly RecommendedUSAFeature FilmDirector: Brad AndersonWriters: Brad Anderson, Lyn VausCinematographer: Uta BriesewitzComposer: Claudio RagazziCast: Hope Davis, Alan Gelfant, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Callie Thorne, Sam Seder, Cara Buono, Ken Cheeseman, Holland Taylor, Robert KleinIn Anderson’s small and whimsical yet beautifully human look at the capricious nature of love and coupling, which is as delightful and romantic as its Bossa Nova soundtrack,...

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Truly Human (2001)

Highly RecommendedDenmark/FinlandFeature FilmOriginal Title: Et rigtigt menneskeSeries Title: Dogme #18Writer/Writer: Åke SandgrenCinematographer: Dirk BrüelCast: Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Peter Mygind, Susan A Olsen, Troels II Munk, Line Kruse, Søren Hauch-Fausbøll, Clara Nepper WintherSandgren’s laugh-out-loud funny, pathos drenched social satire-cum-urban fantasy-cum-humanist fable depicts the misadventures of a doomed innocent, conjured up out the walls...

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Welcome (2009)

Cautiously RecommendedFrance/Belgium/UKFeature FilmDirector: Philippe LioretWriters: Philippe Lioret, Olivier Adam, Emmanuel Courcol, Serge FrydmanCinematographer: Laurent DaillandComposer: Nicola PiovaniCast: Vincent Lindon, Firat Ayverdi, Audrey Dana, Derya Ayverdi, Thierry Godard, Selim Akgül, Firat Celik, Murat SubasiIn Lioret’s compelling and moving though vaguely implausible film, a middle-aged swimming instructor, in the midst of an amicable...

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The Market: A Tale of Trade (2008)

RecommendedTurkey/Germany/Kazakhstan/UKFeature FilmOriginal Title: Pazar: Bir ticaret masaliWriter/ Director: Ben HopkinsCinematographer: Konstantin KröningComposer: Cihan SezerCast: Tayanç Ayaydin, Genco Erkal, Senay Aydin, Hakan Sahin, Rojîn UlkerA struggling market trader with gambling and alcohol problems, who deals in items that have fallen off the back of lorries, aspires to corning the emerging mobile phone market in his small provincial town;...

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Krapp's Last Tape (2000)

Essential ViewingIreland/UKTelevision FilmSeries Title: Beckett on Film (2000-2001)Director: Atom EgoyanWriter: Samuel BeckettCinematographers: Paul SarossyCast: John HurtOn his 69th birthday, in preparation for the recording of his annual self-address, the wizened, banana chomping Krapp listens to the tape he recorded on his 39th, and comes to regard it with a mixture of embarrassment, regret, and sentiment, in Egoyan’s strikingly photographed and...

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O'Horten (2007)

Highly RecommendedNorway/Denmark/France/GermanyFeature FilmOriginal Title: O' HortenWriter/Director: Bent HamerCinematographer: John Christian RosenlundComposer: John Erik KaadaCast: Bård Owe, Espen Skjønberg, Ghita Nørby, Henny Moan, Bjørn Floberg, Kai Remlov, Per Jansen, Bjarte HjelmelandIn Hamer’s gently moving, deadpan gem, a 67-year-old retiring train driver, in the days leading up to and following his final day, somehow manages to get himself...

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Locarno, 2010

Golden LeopardWinter Vacation (2010) Special Jury PrizeMorgen (2010) Best DirectorDenis Côté, Curling (2010) Leopard for Best ActressJasna Duricic, White White World (2010) Leopard for Best ActorEmmanuel Bilodeau, Curling (2010) In Competition At Ellen’s Age (2010) Bas-fonds (2010) Beyond the Steppes (2010) Cold Weather (2010) Curling (2010) Hair (2010) Karamay (2010) L.A. Zombie (2010) Light in Darkness: The Return of Red Light Bandit (2010) Man at Bath (2010) Morgen (2010) Periferic (2010) La Petite Chambre (2010) Pietro...

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My Last Five Girlfriends (2009)

Cautiously RecommendedUKFeature FilmDirector: Julian KempWriters: Julian Kemp, Alain de BottonCinematographer: Dave MillerComposers: Andy Blythe, Marten JoustraCast: Brendan Patricks, Naomie Harris, Kelly Adams, Cécile Cassel, Jane March, Edith Bukovics, Daniel Hoffmann-GillA neurotic and (sort-of) suicidal young man (Patricks) recalls his last five relationships, from their meet-cute beginnings through their inevitable declines to their acrimonious...

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Top Hat (1935)

Highly RecommendedUSAFeature FilmDirector: Mark SandrichWriters: Allan Scott, Dwight TaylorCinematographer: David AbelComposer: Max SteinerCast: Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Erik Rhodes, Eric Blore, Helen BroderickA musical star appearing in a show in London falls for the woman staying in the swanky hotel room below his, but, because she mistakenly believes him to be the new husband of a friend of hers, her seemingly strange...

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Salt (2010)

Cautiously RecommendedUSAFeature FilmDirector: Phillip NoyceWriter: Kurt WimmerCinematographer: Robert ElswitComposer: James Newton HowardCast: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Daniel Olbrychski, August Diehl, Daniel Pearce, Hunt Block, Andre Braugher, Olek KrupaIn Noyce’s fast-paced, action-packed, and (pleasingly) rather silly thriller – which makes good use of cartoon logic in its attempt at a Bourne-Alias-like hybrid – a CIA...

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Awaydays (2009)

Best AvoidedUKFeature FilmDirector: Pat HoldenWriter: Kevin SampsonCinematographer: Tony MitchellComposer: David A. HughesCast: Nicky Bell, Liam Boyle, Holly Grainger, Stephen Graham, Oliver Lee, Ian Puleston-Davies, Sacha Parkinson, Rebecca AtkinsonIn Holden’s painfully unconvincing and rather risible coming-of-age movie, an angry young man from a lower middle class family, who dreams of being accepted by a gang of Birkenheadian football hooligans,...

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Florence Nightingale (2008)

Not RecommendedUKShort Television FilmWriter/Director: Norman StoneCinematographer: Mike FoxComposer: Jeremy SouleCast: Laura Fraser, Michael Pennington, Andrew Harrison, Barbara Marten, Ian Bartholomew, Catherine Tyldesley, Roy HuddThis handsome though strangely uninvolving BBC production, which has an unnecessarily fractured narrative and strange, ungainly musical interludes, paints a portrait of nursing pioneer Florence Nightingale, from her calling...

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Colin (2008)

Highly RecommendedUKFeature FilmWriter/ Director/Cinematographer: Marc PriceComposers: Jack Elphick, Dan WeekesCast: Alastair Kirton, Daisy Aitkens, Kate Alderman, Leanne Pammen, Tat Whalley, Kerry Owen, Leigh Crocombe, Justin Mitchell-DaveyPrice’s genuinely horrific, surprisingly moving, and decidedly original existential zombie movie – supposedly made for just £45 – depicts a day in life of a new-born monster, Colin (Kirton), from being turned...

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Lourdes (2009)

Highly RecommendedFrance/Austria/GermanyFeature FilmWriter/Director: Jessica HausnerCinematographer: Martin GschlachtCast: Sylvie Testud, Léa Seydoux, Gilette Barbier, Gerhard Liebmann, Bruno Todeschini, Elina LöwensohnIn Hausner’s beautifully shot, subtly acted, and gently, enigmatically observational film, Christine, a thirty-something French woman paralysed from the neck down by severe multiple sclerosis, makes a pilgrimage (despite an evident...

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Rough Aunties (2008)

RecommendedUKFeature DocumentaryDirector/Cinematographer: Kim LonginottoThough some of the conversations feel a little forced, and in at least one scene the camera (and consequently our presence) feels intrusive, Longinotto’s upsetting yet hearteningly optimistic portrait of the women of Operation Bobbi Bear – a South African charity dedicated to helping victims of child abuse through their traumas and aiding the police in bringing their abusers...

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Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2001)

RecommendedUSAFeature FilmDirector: John Cameron MitchellWriters: John Cameron Mitchell, Stephen TraskCinematographer: Frank G. DeMarcoComposer: Stephen TraskCast: John Cameron Mitchell, Miriam Shor, Michael Pitt, Andrea Martin, Ben Mayer-Goodman, Alberta Watson, Maurice Dean WintA bitter transsexual singer from East Berlin tours America’s diners with her own unique brand of narcissistic rock, trailing a much more successful former lover, who has...

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Sparkle (2007)

Not RecommendedUKFeature FilmWriter/Directors: Tom Hunsinger, Neil HunterCinematographer: Sean Van HalesComposer: Adrian JohnstonCast: Shaun Evans, Amanda Ryan, Stockard Channing, Lesley Manville, Bob Hoskins, Anthony Head, John Shrapnel, Peter GordonEvans is excellent in the central role – a well-drawn part amidst several sketchier ones – in this otherwise lacklustre romantic comedy and disappointing follow-up to Hunsinger and Hunter’s promising...

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Heist (2008)

Not RecommendedUKTelevision FilmDirector: Justin HardyWriter: Peter HarnessCinematographer: Douglas HartingtonCast: Kris Marshall, Geraldine James, Donald Sumpter, Paul Hilton, Tim Plester, Linal Haft, Bennett Warden, Michael DunningNarrated from Hell by Dick Puddlecote (Kris Marshall), this decidedly irreverent but only sporadically entertaining BBC film depicts the events that led to his 1305 execution, detailing how he and numerous accomplices,...

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Shaun of the Dead (2004)

RecommendedUK/France/USAFeature FilmDirector: Edgar WrightWriters: Simon Pegg, Edgar WrightCinematographer: David M. DunlapComposers: Daniel Mudford, Pete WoodheadCast: Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Dylan Moran, Penelope Wilton, Bill Nighy, Peter Serafinowicz, Rafe SpallHaving just been dumped by his girlfriend of three years, Shaun, a 29-year-old slacker, uses the impending zombie apocalypse as the perfect opportunity to win...

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Public Enemies (2009)

Cautiously RecommendedUSA/JapanFeature FilmDirector: Michael MannWriters: Ronan Bennett, Ann Biderman, Michael Mann, Bryan BurroughCinematographer: Dante SpinottiComposer: Elliot GoldenthalCast: Johnny Depp, Christian Bale, Marion Cotillard, Billy Crudup, Stephen Dorff, Stephen Lang, Stephen Graham, Channing Tatum, Jason Clarke, David Wenham, Branka KaticMann’s handsome, diverting film does a good job of capturing the surface detail of its biographical...

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Goodbye Solo (2008)

Essential ViewingUSAFeature FilmOriginal Title Good Bye SoloDirector: Ramin BahraniWriters: Bahareh Azimi, Ramin BahraniCinematographer: Michael SimmondsComposer: M. LoCast: Souleymane Sy Savane, Red West, Diana Franco Galindo, Lane 'Roc' Williams, Mamadou Lam, Carmen LeyvaFeaturing a pair of subtly affecting performances, Bahrani’s compassionate and painfully yet beautifully human film follows a vivacious Senegalese taxi driver’s attempts to befriend...

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Kisses (2008)

RecommendedIrelandFeature FilmWriter/Director/Cinematographer: Lance DalyComposers: GoBlimpsGoCast: Kelly O'Neill, Shane Curry, Paul Roe, Neilí Conroy, Cathy Malone, David BenditoLet down somewhat by an incongruously upbeat score, Daly’s otherwise convincingly acted and strikingly photographed film follows the misadventures of a pair of young runaways, who flee to the mean streets of multi-cultural Dublin to escape their unhappy home-lives, encountering...

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Bunny and the Bull (2009)

RecommendedUKPart-Animated Feature FilmWriter/Director: Paul KingCinematographer: John SorapureComposer: Ralfe BandCast: Edward Hogg, Simon Farnaby, Verónica Echegui, Noel Fielding, Julian BarrattTelevision director King’s visually imaginative and occasionally hilarious if, perhaps, slightly over-long feature debut inventively depicts the internal road trip taken by an obsessive-compulsive agoraphobic young man, as he remembers the fateful European...

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Tricks (2007)

RecommendedPolandFeature FilmOriginal Title: SztuczkiWriter/Director: Andrzej JakimowskiCinematographer: Adam BajerskiComposer: Tomasz GassowskiCast: Damian Ul, Ewelina Walendziak, Tomasz Sapryk, Rafal Guzniczak, Iwona FornalczykIn Jakimowski’s thoroughly delightful and decidedly original film, a young boy does his best to give fate a helping hand (using his little tricks) and reintroduce a man that he believes to be his estranged father into his...

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