Saint Damian (San Damiano), 2024. Directed by Alejandro Cifuentes, Gregori Sassoli SYNOPSIS: Damian leaves Poland for Rome in search of a new life. With just 50 euros on him, he climbs a tower overlooking the homeless community around Termini station and dreams of music, love and fulfilment. It is said that many of us are […]
Raindance Film Festival 2025 Review – Paternal Leave
Paternal Leave, 2025. Directed by Alissa Jung. Starring Juli Grabenhenrich, Luca Marinelli, and Arturo Gabbriellini. SYNOPSIS: A teenage girl travels to Italy’s northern coast in search of her biological father. After meeting, the two grapple with complex emotions and struggle to form a connection while staying true to their own identities. Alissa Jung’s debut film […]
Raindance Film Festival 2025 Review – Breakwater
Breakwater, 2025. Written and Directed by Max Morgan. Starring Shaun Paul McGrath, Daniel McNamee, Agnes Halliday, William Gao, Noah Radcliffe-Adams SYNOPSIS: A relationship is formed between a university student and a retired angler on the Suffolk coast. The impact of grief and its potential for clouding all aspects of life is sensitively examined in Max […]
Raindance Film Festival 2025 Review – Loner
Loner (2025) Directed by Charlie Robb, Douglas Tawn Starring Charlie Robb, Kat Johns-Burke SYNOPSIS: An aspiring vlogger goes on a wilderness retreat to a cabin in the woods, where he is held captive by an ancient, natural force. Charlie Robb’s Loner succeeds as a disarming and memorable feature, blending pitch-black humour, folk-horror influences and a […]
Raindance Film Festival 2025 Review – Thinestra
Thinestra, 2025. Directed by Nathan Hertz. Starring Melissa Macedo, Michelle Macedo, Mary Beth Barone, Annie Ngosi Ilonzeh, and Brian Huskey. SYNOPSIS: A young woman takes a slimming aid, and the weight she loses returns as a destructive doppelganger. At a time when everyone seems to be judged on how they look rather than how they […]
Raindance Film Festival 2025 Review – Row
Row, 2025. Directed by Matthew Losasso. Starring Bella Dayne, Sophie Skelton, Akshay Khanna, Mark Strephan, Nick Staugen, Jenna Quinn SYNOPSIS: A woman washes ashore on a blood-stained rowing boat. With disjointed memories of what took place and all her crewmates missing, she must try to remember what happened to prove her innocence. Row is an […]
Raindance Film Festival 2025 Review – Tape
Tape, 2024. Directed by Bizhan M. Tong. Starring Adam Pak, Kenny Kwan, Selena Lee. SYNOPSIS: Three former classmates reunite in Hong Kong after 15 years and are forced to confront difficult memories of the past. It’s been fifteen years since high school, and three old schoolmates are in a Hong Kong hotel room, forced to confront […]
