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All articles by Allan Hunter – Page 4
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FeaturesFilms of the year 2024: Allan Hunter
Allan Hunter is based in Edinburgh and has reviewed films for Screen since 1990.
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Reviews‘Snow White’: Red Sea Review
Sensitive, big-hearted Cairo-set drama looks set to be a breakout crowd-pleaser
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Reviews‘Saba’: Red Sea Review
A Bangladeshi woman is torn between responsibility and desire in this sensitively-handled debut
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Reviews‘Ravens’: Red Sea Review
‘Shogun’’s Tadanobu Asano plays Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase in this inventive biopic
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Reviews‘Fanon’: Marrakech Review
French psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, and the formative years he spent in 1950s Algeria
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Reviews‘Postmarks’: Cairo Review
Low-key charmer tracks an unlikely romance set in northeast Russia, ‘on the edge of the world’
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Reviews‘Spring Came On Laughing’: Cairo Review
Heightened Cairo-set melodrama features five tales of fracturing female relationships
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Reviews‘Passing Dreams’: Cairo Review
Cairo opens with a defiantly upbeat Palestinian road movie about a young boy and his missing pigeon
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Reviews‘Flowers Of Ukraine’: DOK Leipzig Review
A Kyiv woman fights to maintain her city garden under the shadow of war in this life-affirming documentary
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Reviews‘Spirit World’: Busan Review
Eric Khoo’s whimsical tale of the afterlife stars Catherine Deneuve as a chain-smoking chanteuse and is set in Tokyo
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Reviews‘The Land Of Morning Calm’: Busan Review
The disappearance of a local fisherman sends ripples through his South Korean coastal community
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Reviews‘Motherland’: Busan Review
Brillante Ma Mendoza’s police thriller is inspired by a 2015 bloodbath in Mindanao
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Reviews‘To Kill A Mongolian Horse’: Busan Review
An Inner Mongolian herdsmen fights to keep hold of his heritage in this dramatisation of his life
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Reviews‘Tale Of The Land’: Busan Review
The ongoing battle for Indigenous lands in Borneo informs this slow-burn debut
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Reviews‘MA - Cry Of Silence’: Busan Review
A young textile worker in Myanmar struggles to find her voice against a backdrop of political unrest
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Reviews’How To Make Millions Before Grandma Dies’: Review
A young man forges a fresh relationship with his ailing grandmother in this Thai box office sensation
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Reviews‘Perfumed With Mint’: Venice Review
A decaying Egyptian city teems with ghosts both literal and metaphorical in this meditative debut
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Reviews‘My Birthday’: Venice Review
Raw debut from Italy from Biennale College follows a young man trying to find his estranged mother on the eve of his 18th birthday
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Reviews‘Maldoror’: Venice Review
Anthony Bajon is a police officer determined to crack a Belgian paedophile ring in Fabrice du Welz’s tense police procedural