All articles by Allan Hunter – Page 8
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Reviews‘While The Green Grass Grows’: Visions Du Reel Review
Grand Prix winner at Visions du Reel is part of an epic, personal project from director Peter Mettler
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Reviews‘Machtat’: Visions du Reel Review
A trio of female wedding singers find freedom in their art in this involving Tunisian documentary
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Reviews‘Stolen’: Dublin Review
Margo Harkin’s documentary about mother and baby homes is essential viewing for Irish society
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Reviews‘Notes From Sheepland’: Dublin Review
Life with Wexford shepherd Orla Barry makes for an entrancing, compact documentary
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Reviews‘Do You Love Me?’: Berlin Review
Semi-autogiographical feature about a Ukranian girl coming of age during the collapse of the USSR
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Reviews‘Opponent’: Berlin Review
An Iranian refugee in Sweden struggles to hide his true identity in Milad Alami’s attention-grabbing second feature
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Reviews‘The Quiet Migration’: Berlin Review
An adopted Korean teenager struggles with life in rural Denmark in Malene Choi’s understated second feature
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Reviews‘Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project’: Sundance Review
This Sundance Grand Jury prizewinner is an unconventional documentary about African American poet Nikki Giovanni
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Reviews‘The Persian Version’: Sundance Review
Layla Mohammadi is a standout in Maryam Keshavarz’s crowdpleasing Iranian-American drama
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Reviews‘20 Days In Mariupol’: Sundance Review
Ukrainian journalist Mstyslav Chernov presents an unflinching account of the early days of the Russian invasion
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Reviews‘Four Little Adults’: Rotterdam Review
A middle-class couple try a lifestyle of polyamory in this Finnish comedy of manners
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Reviews‘Drift’: Sundance Review
Cynthia Erivo stars in Anthony Chen’s sensitive, understated third feature, set on a Greek island
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Reviews‘Smoke Sauna Sisterhood’: Sundance Review
A new generation of women comes clean in the woodland wilds of Estonia
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Reviews‘When It Melts’: Sundance Review
A woman confronts her challenging past in this Belgian debut from actor-turned-filmmaker Veerle Baetens
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FeaturesFilms of the year 2022: Allan Hunter
Allan Hunter has worked for Screen since 1990. He is based in Edinburgh and is co-director of Glasgow Film Festival.
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Reviews‘A Childless Village’: Red Sea Review
An elderly filmmaker returns to a small village to set things right in this Azerbaijan-set comedy
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Reviews‘Goddamned Asura’: Review
Taiwan’s Oscar submission explores the effects of a mass shooting in a Taiwanese market
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Reviews‘Gangubai Kathiawadi’: Review
A global hit on Netflix, this exuberant Indian musical now makes a play for awards
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Reviews‘Bread And Salt’: Cairo Review
Damian Kocur’s mature and thought-provoking debut sees a talented pianist return to the pressure cooker of his small home town