Dutch film-maker Cyrus Frisch enters mobile movie at Rotterdam Film Festival

Dutch film-maker Cyrus Frisch has made a mobile-phone movie, writes The Observer. "Determined to cast a light on the increasing fear and tension he felt within Dutch society, he began by filming what was happening outside his window, where immigrant kids gathered in a square, irritating local residents who called the police. He then filmed clashes between these youths and the police.

"Why didn't anybody tell me it would become this bad in Afghanistan" premiered last week at the Rotterdam Film Festival.

... The viewer watches the 70-minute film through the eyes of a Dutch soldier who has returned shell-shocked after a tour of duty in Afghanistan and now finds life at home as tense and fraught with uncertainty and violence."

emily | 9:31 AM | Mobile Film Fests/Photography Fests |
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