All articles by Amber Wilkinson – Page 4
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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘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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’Fréwaka’: Locarno Review
Aislinn Clarke follows up The Devil’s Doorway with another atmospheric Irish horror
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‘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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‘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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‘Bluish’: FiDMarseille Review
Two twenty-something women navigate Austrian city life in this meditative character study playing FiDMarseilles
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‘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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‘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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‘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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‘The Story Of Souleymane’: 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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‘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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‘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
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‘My Memory Is Full Of Ghosts’: Visions du Reel Review
Syrian residents of Homs tentatively return to the war-ravaged city in the hopes of rebuilding their lives
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‘Fragments Of Ice’: Visions du Reel Review
Home video footage of 1980s Ukraine rubs up against its present in Maria Stoianova’s family history
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‘My Stolen Planet’: Thessaloniki Review
CPH and Berlinale winner is an intimate celebration of everyday resistance in modern Iran
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‘Tack’: Thessaloniki Review
This sensitive documentary follows two Greek female sailors as they seek justice for institutional sexual abuse
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‘Forest’: Thessaloniki Review
Intimate documentary captures how Europe’s refugee crisis is impacting one Polish family’s quiet forest life