Festival reviews
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Reviews‘HWJN’: Red Sea Review
Red Sea opener is an ambitious fantasy epic set in contemporary Jeddah
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Reviews‘Hajjan’: Red Sea Review
A teenager develops a love of camel racing in this Saudi Arabia-set coming-of-age drama
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Reviews‘Silent Night’: Review
John Woo returns to American filmmaking with this dialogue-free revenge thriller
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Reviews‘DEPOT - Reflecting Boijmans’: Review
Rotterdam’s state-of-the-art statement by Sonia Herman Dolz is an irrestible advert for an edifice
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Reviews‘Familiar’: Tallinn Review
A Romanian director attempts to shape his family’s darkest secrets into a film in the abrasive latest from Calin Peter Netzer
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Reviews‘The Moon Is Upside Down’: Tallinn Review
The lives of three lonely New Zealand women intersect in Tallinn’s First Feature winner
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Reviews‘Tehachapi’: IDFA Review
French artist JR mounts a large-scale project at the maximum security California Correctional Centre
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Reviews‘1489’: IDFA Review
IDFA winner from Armenia is an intensely personal portrait of a family coping with the loss of a brother and son in the 2020 Artsakh war
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Reviews‘Life Is Beautiful’: IDFA Review
Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly documents his fight to return to Gaza
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Reviews‘Invisible Nation’: IDFA Review
Profile of Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan’s first female president, and her fight on the global stage
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Reviews‘Once Again’ (for the very first time)’: Tallinn Review
A street dancer and a poet form a creative connection in Boaz Yakin’s unconventional New York romance
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Reviews‘Bad Actor’: Tallinn Review
Intense Mexican drama observes what happens when an actor crosses a line during a sex scene
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Reviews‘Hiding Saddam Hussein’: IDFA Review
Iraqi farmer Alaa Namiq explains how and why he hid Saddam Hussein from US forces in 2003
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Reviews‘The World Is Family’: IDFA Review
Veteran documentarian Anand Patwardhan turns the camera on his own parents to reflect on India’s turbulent history
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Reviews‘As The Tide Comes In’: IDFA Review
Residents on the tiny Danish island of Mando confront the realities of climate change in this immersive documentary
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Reviews‘The Last’: IDFA Review
Paraguayan filmmaker Sebastian Pena Escobar takes a personal trip to the country’s threatened forests
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Reviews‘Selling A Colonial War’: IDFA Review
An examination of Dutch attempts to reframe the Indonesian War Of Independence
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Reviews‘The G’: Tallinn Review
Dale Dickey shines as a pensioner woman determined to take revenge on those who would exploit her
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Reviews‘Misericordia’: Tallinn Review
Three Italian sex workers care for a vulnerable man in Emma Dante’s allegorical third feature
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Reviews‘Danger Zone’: IDFA Review
Eye-popping documentary follows so-called ’war tourists’ to active front lines