Festival reviews – Page 25
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Reviews’Choose Irvine Welsh’: Edinburgh Review
Rambling exploration of the life and lurid times of Scottish author Irvine Welsh
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Reviews‘Kill’: Edinburgh Review
A forest hunting trip takes a dark turn in this effective Scottish genre debut
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Reviews‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde’: Edinburgh Review
Hope Dickson Leach’s inventive hybrid production moves the gothic novel to Edinburgh with the National Theatre of Scotland
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Reviews‘Chuck Chuck Baby’: Edinburgh Review
Janis Pugh’s musical debut is a feel-good second-time-lucky romance set in small-town Wales
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Reviews‘What’s To Be Done’: Sarajevo Review
Godan Devic continues his work documenting Croatia’s difficult transition to capitalism through the bankruptcy of a rolling stock company
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Reviews‘Silent Roar’: Edinburgh Review
Edinburgh’s opening film is set on a beautifully-shot Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides
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Reviews‘Europa’: Sarajevo Review
Slow-burn rural thriller starring Lilith Stangenberg is set in an Albania grappling with modernisation
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Reviews‘Bottlemen’: Sarajevo Review
Roma men scrabble to make a living on a huge rubbish dump near Belgrade in this empathetic Serbian documentary
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Reviews‘Medium’: Sarajevo Review
A teenage girl explores the first flushes of love against the backdrop of a blazing Athens summer
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Reviews‘Guardians Of The Formula’: Sarajevo Review
A 1950s Belgrade reactor leak presents opportunities for medical experimentation in this semi-fictionalised drama
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Reviews‘Excursion’: Sarajevo Review
Sensitive feature debut follows the fall-out from a Bosnian teenager’s compulsive lies
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Reviews‘Critical Zone’: Locarno Review
Locarno’s controversial Golden Leopard winner takes a trip through Tehran’s night-time underbelly
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Reviews‘Dreaming & Dying’: Locarno Review
Double prize winner at Locarno is an aquatic, magical realist tale from Singapore
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Reviews‘First Case’: Locarno Review
Rising French star Noee Abita impresses as a legal assistant given the chance to work on a high-stakes case in rural France
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Reviews‘New Life’: Fantasia Review
Two women embark on a cat-and-mouse chase through America’s Pacific Northwest in this slow-burn debut
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Reviews‘Family Portrait’: Locarno Review
US artist Lucy Kerr makes her debut with an unnerving Texas drama starring Deragh Campbell
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Reviews‘Falling Stars’: Locarno Review
A witch’s curse and a Wiccan revival form the basis of this US indie thriller, premiering on the Piazza Grande
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Reviews‘Do Not Expect Too Much From The End Of The World’: Locarno Review
Radu Jude’s latest follows a beleagured Bucharest production assistant casting for a safety at work video
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Reviews‘Animal’: Locarno Review
A troupe of entertainers at an all-inclusive Greek island resort dig into a new season in Sofia Exarchou’s follow-up to ‘Park’