Edin Custo

Edin Custo is a film critic and cultural journalist from Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He is a regular contributor to Eye For Film and Filmofil.ba, Bosnia and Herzegovina’s only specialised film publication, and his work has also appeared in Cineuropa and DMovies. He also contributes to Azra Magazin (Dnevni Avaz), a mainstream Bosnian magazine platform covering culture and entertainment. He edits The Self Reproaching Critic, his independent platform for film and cultural criticism. He is the founder and president of the Film Critics Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina (UFKBiH), the national section of FIPRESCI (the International Federation of Film Critics). He holds a BA from Occidental College in Los Angeles, and alongside his film writing, he also writes poetry.

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Latest Film Reviews

House Of The Wind
Josette (80) lives alone in Yaoundé, Cameroon. All her children have left for the West. She encourages them to build houses in Cameroon, a ploy to bring them back to her. But the unexpected bond she forms with Sarah, a young woman from her neighborhood, shatters everything she has built her life on: her family, her responsibilities, and her hopes.

I Plant My Hand In The Garden
A pregnant Iranian woman and a Serbian man longing for fatherhood, both bisexual and living in Germany, marry. Their families, divided by language yet united by affection, come together to celebrate.

La Gradiva
A group of French high-school students travel to Naples on a school trip to discover the ruins of Pompeii and the bodies petrified by Vesuvius. There, they are drawn into a dizzying descent.

Montreal, My Beautiful
Feng Xia lives a life of dutiful servitude to her husband, children and community of Chinese ex-pats. When she finally decides to put herself first, and explore the sexuality that she has long concealed, she meets the free-spirited Camille.

Disclosure Day
Alien adventure thriller.

Backrooms
A strange doorway appears in the basement of a furniture showroom.

Minotaur
A high-powered executive's meticulously controlled existence begins to unravel.

Fjord
Mihai and Lisbet Gheorghiu, a devout Romanian Norwegian couple, move from Romania to Norway with their children to be closer to Lisbet’s family. But tension mounts when one of the children arrives at school with bruises.

All Of A Sudden
The director of a nursing home in Paris has an encounter with a terminally ill Japanese playwright that transforms her life.

We Are Aliens
The story follows Tsubasa, a quiet boy, and Akitarō, a child prodigy. Jealousy and misunderstanding sever their childhood bond. Years later, as their lives take different directions, each must make a decision when the weight of the past resurfaces.

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