All articles by Allan Hunter
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‘Adult Children’ review: Galway prizewinner is smart, breezy US coming-of-age drama
Film Fleadh’s best international independent feature is reminiscent of the work of Lynn Shelton
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‘Fuck The Polis’ review: FIDMarseille winner is a personal, lyrical portrait of modern Greece
Rita Azevedo Gomes’s documentary won the festival’s international competition grand prix
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’Gerry Adams: A Ballymurphy Man’ review: Absorbing portrait of the controversial Irish politician
Trisha Ziff’s documentary blends extensive interviews with a wealth of archive footage
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‘Girls & Boys’ review: A Dublin meet-cute takes a darker turn in promising Irish debut
Writer/director Donncha Gilmore explores the attraction between two very different Trinity College students
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‘Baite’ review: Conventional murder mystery unfolds in 1970s Ireland
Moe Dunford stars in Ruan Magan’s adaptation of Sheena Lambert novel
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‘Brick’ review: A German couple hits the wall in satisfying Netflix thriller
Philip Koch’s sci-fi drama bows on the streamer following its Munich premiere
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‘The Last Spy’ review: CIA spymaster Peter Sichel shares his eye-opening life story
Katharina Otto-Bernstein’s extensive documentary follows Sichel’s involvement in key moments of 20th-century history
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‘Saturn’ review’: Transilvania non-fiction winner paints complex portrait of fractured Spanish family
Director Daniel Tornero turns the camera inwards for his What’s Up, Doc? winning debut
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‘Bright Future’ review: Romanian documentary revisits 1989 Pyongyang Festival of Youth and Students
Andra MacMasters’ archival essay named best debut feature in Transilvania’s Romanian Days
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‘The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo’ review: Un Certain Regard winner is set in 1980s Chile
AIDS is making its presence felt within an alternative community in the mining region
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‘Caravan’ review: A mother and her disabled son take to the road in Italy
Czech debut from Zuzana Kirchnerova is born from her own personal experience and her Cinefondation-winning short
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‘Nino’ review: A cancer diagnosis prompts a weekend of reckoning in tender French drama
Theodore Pellin won the Critics’ Week Rising Star Award for his ‘soulful’ performance in Pauline Loques’ debut feature
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‘Kika’ review: A grieving woman turns to sex work in Belgian Critics’ Week debut
Alexe Poukine’s tonally-ambitious feature-length debut is balanced by a sensitive performance from Manon Clavel
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‘Aisha Can’t Fly Away’ review: A Cairo careworker finds herself caught up in local gang tensions
Morad Mostafa’s feature debut mixes drama and magical realism
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‘Love Letters’ review: Drama charts lesbian couple’s rocky road to parenthood in 2014 France
Alice Douard’s confident feature debut stars Mona Rumpf and Monia Chokri
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‘Wild Foxes’ review: Samuel Kircher lands a punch in school boxing drama
Kircher headlines Valery Carnoy’s thoughtful Directors’ Fortnight debut
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‘Her Will Be Done’ review: A young woman faces an ancient evil in rural French horror
Polish actor Maria Wrobel impresses in Julia Kowalski’s atmospheric second feature
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‘The Girl In The Snow’ review: Louise Hemon turns to drama with a story from her own family’s past
Documentarian’s debut is beautifully based in the Hautes Alpes
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‘Put Your Soul On Your Hand And Walk’ review: Gaza documentary is a poignant final testimony
Sepideh Farsi’s ACID film pays tribute to its subject Fatma Hassona, killed in Gaza in April
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‘Promised Sky’ review: Follow-up to ‘Under The Fig Trees’ opens Un Certain Regard
Three migrants struggle to make a home in Tunisia in Erige Sehiri’s engaging drama