All articles by Amber Wilkinson – Page 3
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Reviews‘Mother Mara’: Sarajevo Review
Serbia’s Mirjana Karanovic directs and stars as a woman redefining herself after the death of her only son
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FeaturesRising Stars Scotland: ‘Slow West’ director John Maclean talks career sustainability and actor auditions
Maclean delivered a lively masterclass at the Port of Leith Distillery in Edinburgh.
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Reviews‘At The Door Of The House, Who Will Come Knocking’: Sarajevo Review
Maja Novakovic’s award-winning documentary is an enigmatic portrait of life in rural Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Reviews‘Dad’s Lullaby’: Sarajevo Review
The impact of the war in Ukraine is felt through the experiences of a single family in this debut documentary
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Reviews‘Toxic’: Locarno Review
Golden Leopard-winner hones in on teenage girls and what they’ll do to get out of their dead-end town
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Reviews‘Holy Electricity’: Sarajevo Review
Colourful, uneven Georgian debut explores the city of Tbilisi through the exploits of two door-to-door salesmen
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Reviews‘Fugue’: Edinburgh Review
A man must return the body of his transgender lover to a remote Peruvian Amazon village for burial in this enigmatic Competition film
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Reviews‘Family Therapy’: Sarajevo Review
A glass house in a Slovenian forest plays host to Sonia Prosenc’s satire of the nouveau riche
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Reviews‘A Sister’s Tale’: Locarno Review
Iranian documentarian Leila Amini follows her sister over seven years as she attempts to make it as a singer in Tehran
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Reviews‘The Sparrow In The Chimney’: Locarno Review
A family celebration proves a melting pot for sisterly tension in the final part of Ramon and Silvan Zurcher’s animal trilogy
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Reviews’Fréwaka’: Locarno Review
Aislinn Clarke follows up The Devil’s Doorway with another atmospheric Irish horror
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Reviews‘Luce’: Locarno Review
A lonely leather worker takes extreme steps to forge a connection in this Northern Italy-set Locarno competition title
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Reviews‘Rita’: Fantasia Review
Jayro Bustamante takes inspiration from a real-life Guatemalan children’s home tragedy for this follow-up to ’La Llorona’
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Reviews‘Bluish’: FiDMarseille Review
Two twenty-something women navigate Austrian city life in this meditative character study playing FiDMarseilles
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Reviews‘Kathleen Is Here’: Raindance Review
Eva Birthistle’s feature debut stars an effective Hazel Doupe as an 18-year-old struggling with life outside of the care system
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Reviews‘Searching For Amani’: Raindance Review
Doc follows a 13 year-old boy’s quest to track down the murderers of his father in Kenya’s Laikipia county
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Reviews‘Across The Sea’: Cannes Review
North African exiles in Marseilles search for their future in this decade-spanning drama from Saïd Hamich Benlarbi
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Reviews‘The Story Of Souleyman’: Cannes Review
A Guinean asylum seeker tries to work the gig economy on the streets of Paris in this propulsive drama
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Reviews‘The Shameless’: Cannes Review
Konstantin Bojanov moves to India for this drama about a forbidden relationship between a sex worker and a younger girl
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Reviews‘Kyuka Before Summer’s End’: Cannes Review
A summer boating holiday is capsized by secrets and lies in this Greek family drama which opens the ACID sidebar