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 […]
Raindance Film Festival 2025 Review – Heavyweight
Heavyweight, 2025. Directed by Christopher M. Anthony. Starring Jordan Bolger, Nicholas Pinnock, Jason Isaacs, Sienna Guillory, Osy Ikhile, and Blake Harrison. SYNOPSIS: A boxing coach prepares an underdog for a career-defining boxing championship match, as their world starts to collapse under the pressure. This nerve-racking film feels a bit like going the distance in a […]
Lassie Come Home with Raindance founder Elliot Grove | The Pick of the Flicks Podcast #84
On The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, a different guest drops in every week to chat about their favourite film. This week, Raindance Film Festival founder Elliot Grove tells the unique story behind his love for 1940s classic Lassie Come Home… On this week’s episode of The Pick of the Flicks Podcast, Elliot Grove joins […]
Raindance Film Festival 2019 Review – Under the Radar: The Mike Edmonds Story
Under the Radar: The Mike Edmonds Story, 2019. Directed by Simon Frith. Starring Mike Edmonds, Terry Gilliam, Colin Firth, Michael Palin, Danny John-Jules, Mark Billingham and Robert Watts. SYNOPSIS: An exploration of the life and career of British thespian Mike Edmonds – one of Hollywood’s most prolific small actors. The name Mike Edmonds might not […]
