All articles by Amber Wilkinson – Page 9
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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
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‘Echo’: Berlin Review
Mareike Wegener’s fiction feature debut is a crime mystery with echoes of philosophical trauma
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‘Dreaming Walls’: Berlin Review
Counter-culture is alive in new documentary on the changing tides at New York’s iconic Chelsea Hotel
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‘Brian And Charles’: Sundance Review
British director Jim Archer extends his award-winning short into a warm-hearted comedy
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‘Girl Picture’: Sundance Review
A trio of Finnish women search for satisfaction in Alli Haapasalo’s second solo film
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‘Recovery’: Red Sea Review
Rashid Masharawi traces the history of Jaffa in this inventive, personal documentary
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‘Daughters of Abdul-Rahman’: Cairo/Red Sea Review
Squabbling sisters try to find their way in Jordan’s all-powerful patriarchy
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‘Father Of The Cyborgs’: Dublin Review
A profile of pioneering Irish neurologist Dr Phil Kennedy, who went so far as to give himself a brain implant
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‘Any Day Now’: Berlin Review
An Iranian family in Finland waits in for a vital decision in Hamy Ramezan’s personal first feature
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‘Creation Stories’: Glasgow Review
Glasgow opens with this pacey biopic of Creation Records founder Alan McGee
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‘Writing With Fire’: Sundance Review
Dalit women defy discrimination by setting up a journalistic organisation - and making it a success story
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‘Flee’: Sundance Review
The story of an Afghan refugee is enhanced by the enlightened animations of Jonas Poher Rasmussen and his team
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‘Avalon’: DOK Leipzig Review
An exploration of the director’s sexual boundaries forms the heart of this obsessively personal film from Thailand