Festival reviews – Page 19
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Reviews‘A Sister’s Tale’: Locarno Review
Iranian documentarian Leila Amini follows her sister over seven years as she attempts to make it as a singer in Tehran
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Reviews‘Mexico 86’: Locarno Review
Bérénice Béjo stars as a Guatemalan activist exiled to Mexico who must rebuild her relationship with her 10-year-old son
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Reviews‘The Sparrow In The Chimney’: Locarno Review
A family celebration proves a melting pot for sisterly tension in the final part of Ramon and Silvan Zurcher’s animal trilogy
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Reviews’Fréwaka’: Locarno Review
Aislinn Clarke follows up The Devil’s Doorway with another atmospheric Irish horror
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Reviews‘Luce’: Locarno Review
A lonely leather worker takes extreme steps to forge a connection in this Northern Italy-set Locarno competition title
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Reviews‘Death Will Come’: Locarno Review
A female contract killer takes on a job for a prominent gangster in Christoph Hochhausler’s Brussels-set noir
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Reviews‘The Killers’: Fantasia Review
Lee Myung-Se joins this South Korean portmanteau in which four directors put their spin on Ernest Hemingway’s assassin story
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Reviews‘Self Driver’: Fantasia Review
A Toronto cab driver takes a journey to the dark side in Fantasia’s New Flesh award winner
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Reviews‘In Our Blood’: Fantasia Review
A young filmmaker’s reunion with her estranged mother does not go to plan in this New Mexico-set found-footage horror
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Reviews‘Unstoppable’: FIFF Review
FIRST IFF’s First Frame award winner profiles Chinese mixed martial artist Zhang Weili
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Reviews‘Hell Hole’: Fantasia Review
The latest from the Adams Family sees an American fracking crew in Serbia dig up more than they bargained for
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Reviews‘Parvulos’: Fantasia Review
Three kids navigate an apocalyptic future in the latest from Mexican genre veteran Isaac Ezban
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Reviews‘Dead Dead Full Dead’: Fantasia Review
Two junior cops try and solve a murder in this supernatural mystery from India
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Reviews‘Rita’: Fantasia Review
Jayro Bustamante takes inspiration from a real-life Guatemalan children’s home tragedy for this follow-up to ’La Llorona’
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Reviews‘The Beast Within’: Fantasia Review
Kit Harington stars in this atmospheric British horror in which a young girl confronts her family’s darkest secret
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Reviews‘Bookworm’: Fantasia Review
Elijah Wood headlines New Zealand-set Fantasia opener as a hapless father helping his daughter track a mythical giant panther
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Reviews‘Mrs Robinson’: Galway Review
The life and accomplishments of Mary Robinson, the first female President of Ireland, are celebrated in this unctuous documentary
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Reviews‘Poison’: Galway Review
Tim Roth and Trine Dyrholm power this Luxembourg-set drama about grief and forgiveness
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Reviews‘Housewife Of The Year’: Galway Review
Doc reveals Ireland’s troubling gender politics through the country’s long-running ’Housewife Of The Year’ competition
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Reviews‘Fidil Ghorm’: Galway Review
TV director Anne McCabe makes her feature debut with this County Donegal-set drama about the power of music