Festival reviews – Page 31
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Reviews‘Last Swim’: Berlin Review
Freewheeling London-set debut is a confident opener to Berlin’s Generations sidebar
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Reviews‘The Adamant Girl’: Berlin Review
A road trip to a shaman forms the basis of Vinothraj PS’s follow-up to ‘Pebbles’
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Reviews‘My Favourite Cake’: Berlin Review
A lonely septuagenarian grabs a second chance at happiness in this rich tragicomedy from Iran
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Reviews‘At Averroes & Rosa Parks’: Berlin Review
Nicolas Philibert profiles two Parisian psychiatric units in the second of a planned trilogy following ’On The Adamant’
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Reviews‘Favoriten’: Berlin Review
Documentary spends three years following an inner-city Viennese primary school
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Reviews‘Crossing’: Berlin Review
An ageing Georgian woman travels to Istanbul in search of her trans niece in Panorama’s elegiac opener
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Reviews‘Small Things Like These’: Berlin Review
Cillian Murphy is a quiet man with a conscience in 1980s Ireland in this adaptation of Claire Keegan’s novella
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Reviews‘Rei’: Rotterdam Review
Rotterdam’s Tiger winner is an ambitious debut from actor-turned-filmmaker Toshihiko Tanaka
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Reviews‘The Old Bachelor’: Rotterdam Review
Rotterdam Big Screen winner is a vision of Iran rarely seen on screen
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Reviews‘Madame Luna’: Rotterdam Review
Daniel Espinosa returns with this stirring drama about an Eritrean refugee doing everything she can to survive in Calabria
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Reviews‘Portrait Of A Certain Orient’: Rotterdam Review
A brother and sister depart 1940s Lebanon for a new life in Brazil in the latest from Marcelo Gomes
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Reviews‘Greice’: Rotterdam Review
A Brazilian student in Lisbon spins a web of white lies in this mild-mannered comedy
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Reviews‘Swimming Home’: Rotterdam Review
An unexpected house guest upsets a family dynamic in this UK adaptation of the Man Booker Prize-nominated novel
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Reviews‘The Worst Man In London’: Rotterdam Review
Real-life art dealer Charles Augustus Howell is the eponymous cad of this 19th-century period piece
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Reviews‘In The Summers’: Sundance Review
Two girls spend years of summer holidays with their troubled father in New Mexico in this Sundance-winning debut
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Reviews‘13 Bombs’: Rotterdam Review
Jakarta authorities race to find explosives hidden across the city in this fast-paced ’24’-style thriller
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Reviews‘Flathead’: Rotterdam Review
Docu-fiction follows a raddled septuagenarian returning to his blue-collar childhood home in Australia
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Reviews‘Eternal’: Rotterdam Review
Eco-disaster sci-fi from Denmark starring pop singer Oh Land is also an off-beat love story
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Reviews’Small Hours Of The Night’: Rotterdam Review
Bold chamber drama from Singapore is set in a prison cell with a single protagonist representing the city-state’s restrictive history