All articles by Allan Hunter – Page 9
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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
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Reviews‘Earth Altars’: Doclisboa Review
Doclisboa winner is a personal exploration of the relationship between the body and the earth
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Reviews‘There’s Still Tomorrow’: Rome Review
Actress-turned director Paola Cortellesi’s black-and-white post-war Italian drama opens Rome
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Reviews‘Bye Bye Tiberias’: London Review
Lina Soualem, daughter of Hiam Abbass, explores her family history in this personal documentary which won London’s Grierson award
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Reviews‘That They May Face The Rising Sun’: London Review
1980s Ireland provides a slice of the good life in Pat Collins’ ode to John McGahern’s final novel
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Reviews‘September 1923’: Busan Review
Powerful dramatisation of a massacre that followed an earthquake in Japan a century ago
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Reviews‘24 Hours With Gaspar’: Busan Review
A detective with 24 hours to live attempts to close a longstanding case in this dystopian actioner from Indonesia
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Reviews‘Moro’: Busan Review
Brillante Ma Mendoza explores the enduring conflict in Mindanao through the tale of two warring brothers
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Reviews‘Solids By The Seashore’: Busan Review
Romance blossoms in a south Thailand coastal town affected by climate change in this tender if unfortunately-named debut
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Reviews‘Falling Into Place’: Hamburg Review
German actress Aylin Tezel makes her directorial debut with this love story set between Skye and London
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Reviews‘Solo’: Toronto Review
Montreal’s drag scene comes under the spotlight in this affecting drama about a romance that turns sour
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Reviews‘Concrete Utopia’: Toronto Review
Korea’s Oscar hopeful is a dynamic dystopian disaster move set in a post-earthquake apartment building
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Reviews‘Malqueridas’: Venice Review
Debut documentary paints a poignant picture of life in a Chilean women’s prison
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Reviews‘About Last Year’: Venice Review
Unusual documentary captures three cisgender friends as they find acceptance and release in Turin’s ballroom scene
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Reviews‘Sky Peals’: Venice Review
Moin Hussain’s intriguing arthouse tale of alienation in modern Britain plays out in Critics Week
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Reviews‘Tatami’: Venice Review
An Iran/Israel collaboration results in a first-class bout with politics in this tense judo drama
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Reviews‘The Vourdalak’: Venice Review
Tolstoy’s blood-sucking novella gets an imaginative reworking by French stylist Adrien Beau
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Reviews‘Life Is Not A Competition, But I’m Winning’: Venice Review
Inventive hybrid documentary from Germany takes a historical look at gender boundaries in competitive sport
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Reviews‘The Mission’: Telluride Review
Nat Geo doc traces the last fateful journey of missionary John Allen Chau to North Sentinel Island