All articles by Amber Wilkinson – Page 7
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‘Narcosis’: Thessaloniki Review
First time filmmaker Martijn de Jong explores a family grappling with grief in the Netherlands’ Oscar submission
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‘The Taste Of Apples Is Red’: Thessaloniki Review
A Druze community between Syria and Israel is the setting for Ehab Tarabieh’s fiction debut
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‘Something You Said Last Night’: Review
A transgender woman holidays with her family in this warm observational debut from Luis De Filippis
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‘The Winter Within’: Busan Review
A desperate wife searches for her missing husband in modern day Kashmir
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‘Merkel’: Telluride Review
Eva Weber looks at the life of the former German Chancellor with an eye on both the personal and the political
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‘For My Country’: Venice Review
A military hazing ritual turns deadly in Rachid Hami’s intensely personal drama
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‘Casa Susanna’: Venice Review
Sebastien Lifshitz’s moving documentary pay tribute to a 1960s getaway for transgender women and cross-dressers
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‘The Night Belongs To Lovers’: Transilvania Review
A one night stand is at the heart of Julien Hilmoine’s likeable, if light, emotional drama
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‘Gentle’: Transilvania Review
A female bodybuilder finds her inner strength in this immersive drama
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‘January’: Tribeca Review
Viesturs Kairiss paints a rather sombre picture of adolescence in the political turbulence of early-90s Latvia
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‘The Strange Case of Jacky Caillou’: Cannes Review
Lucas Delangle’s offbeat debut concerns a young man torn between mysticism and music
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‘Magdala’: Cannes Review
Damien Manivel creates a gentle, unhurried portrait of Mary Magdalene in this melancholy autumnal tale
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‘Sick Of Myself’: Cannes Review
A toxic relationship gone nuclear is at the heart of Kristoffer Borgli’s dark comedy
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‘Under The Fig Trees’: Cannes Review
Erige Sehiri makes her fiction debut with this gentle human drama set in a Tunisian orchard
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‘99 Moons’: Cannes Review
A frank, erotically charged portait of two lovers plays out in Cannes’ ACID programme
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‘All Of Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars’: Visions du Reel Review
Jennifer Rainsford’s debut feature doc traces connections made by people grieving loved ones lost in Japan’s 2011 tsunami
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‘5 Dreamers And A Horse’: Visions du Reel Review
In Armenia, four subjects search for their place in society through a series of quirky vignettes
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‘A House Made Of Splinters’: Thessaloniki Review
In pre-war Ukraine, an orphanage for temporary placements tries to deal with the psychological wounds of conflict
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‘Angry Young Men’: Glasgow Review
Paul Morris’s one-man microbudget movie explores childhood rivalries set on a fictional housing estate in Scotland
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‘Adult Adoption’: Glasgow Review
Actor and playright Ellie Moon wrote and stars in this quirky comedy drama about a care leaver seeking adult adoption