Festival reviews
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Reviews‘Driving Mum’: Tallinn Review
Icelandic winner of Tallinn’s top prize is a road movie from beyond - or before - the grave
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‘The Wastetown’: Tallinn Review
A desperate woman searches for her missing son in Ahmad Bahrani’s follow up to Venice Horizons winner ’The Wasteland’
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‘A Cup Of Coffee And New Shoes On’: Tallinn Review
Deaf-mute identical twin brothers must cope with losing their sight in this superb Albanian drama
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‘Amar Colony’: Tallinn Review
Feature debut from India plays out inside a crumbling building in the teeming city of Shimla
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‘The Other Widow’: Tallinn Review
Tel Aviv-set debut focuses on a secret mistress whose life is silently impacted by the loss of her lover
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‘A Place Of Our Own’: Review
Indian drama from Bhopal grassroots group Ektara Collective follows two transgender women after they’re evicted from their home
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‘Parade’: Tallinn Review
A brass band leader’s life gets riotously uncomfortable in this pleasing debut from Lithuania
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‘Journey Through Our World’: IDFA Review
IDFA’s Best Dutch Documentary is an intimate portrait of the Covid-19 pandemic in which the directors turn the camera on themselves
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‘Notes On Displacement’: IDFA Review
Filmmaker Khaled Jarrar follows refugees on their arduous journey to Europe in 2015
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‘My Lost Country’: IDFA Review
Ishtar Yasin Gutierrez’s autobiographical essay film won IDFA Envision’s Outstanding Artistic Contribution prize
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‘Pelican’: Tallinn Review
An injured Croatian footballer questions his entire life in this Croatian feature debut
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‘Riverbed’: Cairo Review
A mother and daughter struggle to reconnect in Bassem Breche’s imagery-led feature debut
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‘Typist Artist Pirate King’: Tallinn Review
Carol Morley presents a fictionalised portrait of little-known avant-garde schizophrenic artist Audrey Amiss
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‘The Astronaut’: Cairo Review
Nicolas Giraud’s portrait of a French loner sending himself to space fails to get off the ground
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‘Apolonia, Apolonia’: IDFA Review
IDFA’s International Competition winner is an intimate portrait of Danish-French artist Apolonia Sokol
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‘19B’: Cairo Review
An elderly caretaker tends to a crumbling Cairo villa in Ahmad Abdalla’s engaging third feature
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‘Alam’: Cairo Review
A Palestinian-Israeli teenager struggles to shake off the weight of history in Firas Khoury’s feature debut
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‘How Dare You Have Such A Rubbish Wish’: IDFA Review
Mania Akbari explores the depiction of women on screen through an archive of pre-Revlutionary Iranian cinema
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‘Personality Crisis: One Night Only’: IDFA Review
Former New York Dolls frontman David Johansen brings his Buster Poindexter persona to the Manhattan stage
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‘Bread And Salt’: Cairo Review
Damian Kocur’s mature and thought-provoking debut sees a talented pianist return to the pressure cooker of his small home town
