All articles by Allan Hunter – Page 5
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Reviews‘Greice’: Rotterdam Review
A Brazilian student in Lisbon spins a web of white lies in this mild-mannered comedy
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Reviews‘Eternal’: Rotterdam Review
Eco-disaster sci-fi from Denmark starring pop singer Oh Land is also an off-beat love story
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Reviews‘Hammarskjold - Fight For Peace’: Rotterdam Review
Stately biopic explores the final weeks of former UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold
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Reviews‘Reinas’: Sundance Review
Tender tale of two adolescent girls reconnecting with their father in turbulent 1990s Peru
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Reviews‘Sebastian’: Sundance Review
An young Scottish writer living in London embarks on a raunchy, liberating double-life
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Reviews‘Girls Will Be Girls’: Sundance Review
Naive Indian teenager navigating her first relationship looks to be a Sundance breakout
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FeaturesFilms of the year 2023: Allan Hunter
Allan Hunter has worked for Screen since 1990. He is based in Edinburgh and recently retired as co-director of Glasgow Film Festival.
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Reviews’Alhamour H.A.’: Review
A lowly security guard claws his way to the top in Saudi Arabia’s Oscar submission
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Reviews‘2018’: Review
India’s Oscar submission is a classic drama based on the devastating Kerala floods of 2018
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Reviews‘Thunder’: Review
Switzerland’s Oscar entry is an assured debut exploring female sexual awakening in the summer of 1900
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Reviews‘Dalma’: Red Sea Review
The arrival of a single woman creates escalating tension on the small Emirati island of Dalma
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Reviews‘Sunday’: Red Sea Review
An elderly Uzbek couple take centre stage in a deadpan drama which is winning festival plaudits
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Reviews‘HWJN’: Red Sea Review
Red Sea opener is an ambitious fantasy epic set in contemporary Jeddah
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Reviews‘Hajjan’: Red Sea Review
A teenager develops a love of camel racing in this Saudi Arabia-set coming-of-age drama
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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
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Reviews‘The Last’: IDFA Review
Paraguayan filmmaker Sebastian Pena Escobar takes a personal trip to the country’s threatened forests
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Reviews‘The Clinic’: IDFA Review
Midi Z’s portrait of a Myanmar health clinic widens to explore the plight of a country in turmoil
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Reviews‘Cottontail’: Rome Review
Lily Franky plays a Japanese widower on a sentimental journey to England’s Lake Windermere
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Reviews‘Toll’: Review
A traditional Brazilian mother butts heads with her gay son in Rome’s breakout Best Film winner
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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