Allan Hunter
Reviews‘Thunder’: Review
Switzerland’s Oscar entry is an assured debut exploring female sexual awakening in the summer of 1900
Reviews‘Dalma’: Red Sea Review
The arrival of a single woman creates escalating tension on the small Emirati island of Dalma
Reviews‘Sunday’: Red Sea Review
An elderly Uzbek couple take centre stage in a deadpan drama which is winning festival plaudits
Reviews‘Hajjan’: Red Sea Review
A teenager develops a love of camel racing in this Saudi Arabia-set coming-of-age drama
Reviews‘1489’: IDFA Review
IDFA winner from Armenia is an intensely personal portrait of a family coping with the loss of a brother and son in the 2020 Artsakh war
Reviews‘The Last’: IDFA Review
Paraguayan filmmaker Sebastian Pena Escobar takes a personal trip to the country’s threatened forests
Reviews‘The Clinic’: IDFA Review
Midi Z’s portrait of a Myanmar health clinic widens to explore the plight of a country in turmoil
Reviews‘Cottontail’: Rome Review
Lily Franky plays a Japanese widower on a sentimental journey to England’s Lake Windermere
Reviews‘Toll’: Review
A traditional Brazilian mother butts heads with her gay son in Rome’s breakout Best Film winner
Reviews‘The Melusinas At The Edge Of The River’: Doclisboa Review
Winner of Doclisboa’s Portugese competition blends a Luxembourg fairytale with the modern immigrant experience
Reviews‘Earth Altars’: Doclisboa Review
Doclisboa winner is a personal exploration of the relationship between the body and the earth
Reviews‘There’s Still Tomorrow’: Rome Review
Actress-turned director Paola Cortellesi’s black-and-white post-war Italian drama opens Rome
Reviews‘Bye Bye Tiberias’: London Review
Lina Soualem, daughter of Hiam Abbass, explores her family history in this personal documentary which won London’s Grierson award
Reviews‘That They May Face The Rising Sun’: London Review
1980s Ireland provides a slice of the good life in Pat Collins’ ode to John McGahern’s final novel
Reviews‘September 1923’: Busan Review
Powerful dramatisation of a massacre that followed an earthquake in Japan a century ago
Reviews‘24 Hours With Gaspar’: Busan Review
A detective with 24 hours to live attempts to close a longstanding case in this dystopian actioner from Indonesia
Reviews‘Moro’: Busan Review
Brillante Ma Mendoza explores the enduring conflict in Mindanao through the tale of two warring brothers
Reviews‘Solids By The Seashore’: Busan Review
Romance blossoms in a south Thailand coastal town affected by climate change in this tender if unfortunately-named debut
Reviews‘Falling Into Place’: Hamburg Review
German actress Aylin Tezel makes her directorial debut with this love story set between Skye and London