Festival reviews – Page 26
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Reviews‘Good One’: Cannes Review
A hiking trip puts a father-daughter relationship to the test in this slow-burn Sundance debut
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Reviews‘The Second Act’: Cannes Review
Quentin Dupieux’s meta-commentary on the future of filmmaking is a flimsy Cannes opener
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Reviews‘Farming The Revolution’: Hot Docs Review
Hot Docs winner follows Indian farmers as they unite to protest damaging government laws
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Reviews‘Intercepted’: Hot Docs Review
Doc combines images of destruction in Ukraine with calls home by Russian soldiers to horrifying effect
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Reviews‘Helen And The Bear’: Hot Docs Review
Vibrant story of the long and complicated marriage between a former congressman and his wife
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Reviews’Red Fever’: Hot Docs Review
Breezy, earnest exploration of the startling impact Indigenous culture has had on the modern world
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Reviews‘Whatever It Takes’: Hot Docs Review
Compelling real-crime doc about the harassment of a journalist following her reporting on e-commerce giant eBay
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Reviews‘The Ride Ahead’: Hot Docs Review
Samuel Habib offers an intensely first-person perspective on navigating his life as he prepares to enter college
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Reviews‘Le Mans 55: The Unauthorised Investigation’: Hot Docs Review
The 1955 Le Mans disaster is investigated by a close relative of two of the 83 people who lost their lives at the racetrack
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Reviews‘Never Look Away’: Hot Docs Review
Lucy Lawless makes her directorial debut with this unflinching look at combat photojournalist Margaret Moth
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Reviews‘A House On Fire’: Review
A dysfunctional family gathers for an explosive weekend on the Costa Brava in this dark Catalan comedy
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Reviews‘Rising Up At Night’: Visions du Reel Review
In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the residents of Kinshasa fight to restore electricity to their beleaguered city
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Reviews‘The Landscape And The Fury’: Visions du Reel Review
The fragility of life in the Bosnia and Herzegovina borderlands is challenged by the arrival of refugees in this immersive Visions du Reel winner
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Reviews‘Billy’: Visions du Reel Review
Lawrence Cote-Collins tracks her friend Billy’s conviction for murder and his lifelong struggle with mental health
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Reviews‘My Memory Is Full Of Ghosts’: Visions du Reel Review
Syrian residents of Homs tentatively return to the war-ravaged city in the hopes of rebuilding their lives
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Reviews‘My Father’s Diaries’: Visions du Reel Review
Filmmaker Ado Hasanovic revisits the Balkan War through his father’s archival video and diary footage
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Reviews‘Mother Vera’: Visions du Reel Review
A Belorusian convent is the setting for this unique UK-produced story of spiritual self-realisation
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Reviews‘Apple Cider Vinegar’: Visions du Reel Review
Inspired by her own illness, Sofie Benoot sets off to find direct connections between the human body and our planet
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Reviews‘Fragments Of Ice’: Visions du Reel Review
Home video footage of 1980s Ukraine rubs up against its present in Maria Stoianova’s family history
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Reviews‘The Flats’: CPH:DOX Review
The past casts a permanent shadow over a West Belfast housing estate in this CPH:DOX winner