Festival reviews – Page 46
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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’
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Reviews‘The Falling Star’: Locarno Review
Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon’s typically-quirky comedy plays out in a Belgian beer bar
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Reviews’Abang Adik’: NYAFF Review
New York Asian Film Festival top prize-winner is a tour de force from Malaysia’s Jin Ong
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Reviews‘The Hypnosis’: Karlovy Vary Review
A professional woman undergoes hypnotherapy to surprising results in this Karlovy Vary prizewinner
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Reviews‘Double Blind’: Galway Review
Savvy Irish suspense/body horror leaves room open for a – not unwelcome – sequel
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Reviews‘Late Night With The Devil’: Fantasia Review
David Dastmalchian’s TV host unwittingly unleashes hell in this Seventies-set found footage chiller
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Reviews‘What You Wish For’: Fantasia Review
Nick Stahl is a chef who finds himself in hot water in Nicholas Tomnay’s slick, if flavourless, thriller
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Reviews‘Empire V’: Fantasia Review
Banned in Russia, this fantasy feature sees the country ruled over by an elite, secret conclave of vampires
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Reviews‘Aporia’: Fantasia Review
A grieving woman is given the opportunity to rewrite history in this time bending drama
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Reviews‘Hippo’: Fantasia Review
Mark H. Rapaport’s feature debut is a black-and-white checklist of transgressions set in 1990s America
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Reviews‘Sympathy For The Devil’: Fantasia Review
Nicolas Cage deploys his trademark crazy as an armed stranger who takes an ordinary man for a terrifying ride