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All articles by Allan Hunter
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Reviews‘Barni’ review: A missing girl leads to new horizons in ambitious, sentimental Somali debut
Mohammed Sheikh’s feature follows the search for a missing child from a quiet Somali village to the big city
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Reviews‘A Sad And Beautiful World’ review: Lebanon’s Oscar hopeful is appealing, soulful romance
The debut feature from Cyril Aris follows a Lebanese couple over three decades
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Reviews‘Sophia’ review: Jessica Brown Findlay stars in Dhafer L’Abidine’s accessible Tunisian thriller
L’Abidine also stars in this workmanlike thriller, which premieres as a Marrakech Gala screening
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Reviews‘First Light’ review: A nun wrestles with her faith in assured, precisely crafted Philippines-set debut
The confident first feature from Australian director James J Robinson plays Marrakech competition
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Reviews‘Cotton Queen’ review: Thessaloniki winner is assured debut from Sudanese filmmaker Suzannah Mirghani
A young Sudanese woman fights for control of her own life in Mirghani’s village drama
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Reviews‘To New Beginnings’ review: Paprika Steen-directed drama sees friendships unravel in Copenhagen
The Danish actor-turned director’s wry ensemble piece takes place at a New Year’s Eve party
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Reviews‘Retreat’ review: A school for the deaf may not be all it appears in atmospheric UK thriller
The latest from UK filmmaker Ted Evans features a deaf principal cast and the use of British Sign Language
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Reviews‘Short Summer’ review: Delicate debut depicts a Russian childhood in the shadow of war
Nastia Korkia’s drama, set during the second Chechen war, plays Hamburg after winning Venice’s Lion of the Future award
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Reviews‘Seven O’Clock Breakfast Club For The Brokenhearted’ review: Seoul-set romance explores love and loss
Moving Busan Competition drama follows a young woman struggling to move on from a relationship
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Reviews‘Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale’ review: Change comes to the Abbey in nostalgic final hurrah
Director Simon Curtis and writer Julian Fellowes serve up a familiar formula of scandal and sentimentality
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Reviews‘On The Road’ review: Venice Horizons winner is taut, tender tale of gay Mexican drifter
Writer/director David Pablos sets his story in the ultra-masculine environment of Mexico’s trucking community
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Reviews‘Saipan’ review: Steve Coogan and Eanna Hardwicke are a dream team in real-life Irish football drama
Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn explore the 2002 clash between Irish footballer Roy Keane and manager Mick McCarthy
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Reviews‘The Cut’ review: Orlando Bloom gives a knock-out performance in otherwise bland boxing drama
John Turturro and Catriona Balfe also get in the ring for director Sean Ellis
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Reviews‘Waking Hours’ review: Revealing Italian documentary follows Afghan people smugglers in Serbia
Uncompromising Venice Critics Week title will reward patient viewers
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Reviews‘Memory’ review: Ukrainian filmmaker Vladlena Sandu explores her troubled past in lyrical docudrama
Sandu’s exploration of a childhood spent in Crimea and Chechnya opens Venice’s Giornate degli Autori
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Reviews‘In Transit’ review: Jennifer Ehle shines in Jaclyn Bethany’s melancholy chamber piece
Alex Sarrigeorgiou writes and stars in this study of the relationship between a painter and her subject
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Reviews‘Once You Shall Be One Of Those Who Lived Long Ago’ review: Bittersweet portrait of a declining Swedish mining town
Documentary follows the few remaining residents of Malmberget in northern Sweden
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Reviews‘Mother Of Flies’ review: Fantasia’s Cheval Noir winner is a visceral, thoughtful folk horror
The latest from cult filmmakers the Adams Family is heading to Shudder
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Reviews‘The Well’ review: Muted Canadian eco-thriller finds humanity on the brink of collapse
Oscar-nominated documentarian Hubert Davis makes the move into fiction with this sombre drama