Festival reviews – Page 12
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Reviews‘Black Dog’: London Review
Two very different young men find a kinship on a roadtrip in this British debut
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Reviews‘Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget’: London Review
Aardman’s long-awaited sequel to its most successful feature ever looks set to become a family favourite
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Reviews‘The Movie Emperor’: Busan
Director Ning Hao and star Andy Lau re-team for this savvy film industry satire
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Reviews‘Bride Kidnapping’: Busan Review
Jiseok co-winner at Busan is a dour but powerful drama from Kyrgyzstan.
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Reviews‘Paradise’: Busan Review
Effective Sri Lanka-set tourism drama shared the top prize in Busan’s Jiseok competition
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Reviews‘All Dirt Roads Taste Of Salt’: London Review
Raven Jackson’s feature debut is a patchwork of Tennessee memories produced by Barry Jenkins
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Reviews‘Starve Acre’: London Review
Matt Smith and Morfydd Clark struggle to deal with tragedy in Daniel Kokatajlo’s 70s-set folk horror
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Reviews‘Tuesday’: London Review
Julia Louis-Dreyfus stars in this ambitious feature debut from the UK, backed by A24
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Reviews‘House Of The Seasons’: Busan Review
A family drama set around a tofu factory is an engaging addition to the ‘Korean Cinema Today’ strand at Busan
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Reviews‘This Is Going To Be Big’: London Review
Neurodiverse teenagers stage a musical about singer John Farnham in this upbeat Australian doc
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Reviews‘That They May Face The Rising Sun’: London Review
1980s Ireland provides a slice of the good life in Pat Collins’ ode to John McGahern’s final novel
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Reviews‘After The Fever’: Busan Review
A young Japanese couple approach love from very different angles in Akira Yamamoto’s vacant drama
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Reviews‘The Spark’: Busan Review
A filmmaker is out to wreak bloody revenge in this hybrid docu/drama set in the sacred Hindu city of Varanasi
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Reviews‘Heritage’: Busan Review
Three lives intersect in a welfare office in Korea in Lee Jong-su’s droll, dry debut
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Reviews‘Haar’: London Review
A TV production manager reaches crisis point in Ben Hecking’s Budapest-set, Super8-shot second feature
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Reviews‘That Summer’s Lie’: Busan Review
The events of one South Korean summer may not be all they appear in this twisting breakout Busan-set debut
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Reviews‘Paradise Is Burning’: Hamburg Review
Hamburg’s closing film follows three young sisters left to fend for themselves in Sweden
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Reviews‘The Wrestler’: Busan Review
An underdog wrestler attempts to become a champion in the Bangladeshi sport of Boli khela
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Reviews‘The Stranger’: Busan Review
A young Bangladeshi boy struggles to connect with his largely absent father – and his true self – in this coming-of-age drama