Festival reviews – Page 47
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Reviews‘Stay Online’: Fantasia Review
This ’screenlife’ thriller was shot in Ukraine against the backdrop of the current Russian invasion
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Reviews‘Mami Wata’: Fantasia Review
A West African village finds itself at a spiritual crossroads in CJ ‘Fiery’ Obasi’s striking third feature
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Reviews‘A Greyhound Of A Girl’: Galway Review
A young girl confronts mortality in this colourful animated adaptation of Roddy Doyle’s novel
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Reviews‘Lies We Tell’: Galway Review
Star Agnes O’Casey brings a modern edge to this adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu’s ‘Uncle Silas’
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Reviews‘Apocalypse Clown’: Galway Review
George Kane’s anarchic comedy follows a troupe of clowns travelling across Ireland in the aftermath of a electrical blackout
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Reviews‘In The Shadow Of Beirut’: Galway Review
Backed by Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, this Lebanon-set documentary presents a troubling portrait of life in Sabra and Shatila
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Reviews‘The Martini Shot’: Galway Review
Matthew Modine plays a terminally-ill director attemping to make his last film in Ireland
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Reviews‘Blaga’s Lessons’: Karlovy Vary Review
Karlovy Vary’s Crystal Globe winner is a tense thriller about an elderly Bulgarian woman who falls for a telephone scam
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Reviews‘The Miracle Club’: Galway Review
Maggie Smith, Kathy Bates and Laura Linney head this long-gestating drama set in 1960s Ireland
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Reviews‘Background’: FIDMarseille Review
FIDMarseille’s International Competition winner follows a son’s attempt to learn more about his father’s past
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Reviews‘Fremont’: Karlovy Vary Review
An Afghan woman living in California dreams of new adventures in Babak Jalali’s fourth feature
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Reviews‘The Girls Are Alright’: Karlovy Vary Review
Five women spend a week at a Spanish creative retreat in this delicate portrait of female friendship
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Reviews‘Red Rooms’: Karlovy Vary Review
A young woman becomes obsessed with a serial killer in this intense Canadian chiller
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Reviews‘Slow’: Karlovy Vary Review
A new couple navigate their sexual differences in this accomplished Sundance prize-winning drama
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Reviews‘Restore Point’: Karlovy Vary Review
Ambitious Czech thriller is set in a near future where dead bodies can be restored to life
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Reviews‘Empty Nets’: Karlovy Vary Review
German/Iranian director Behrooz Karamizade makes a powerful debut with his story of a young Iranian diver
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Reviews‘In Camera’: Karlovy Vary Review
Naqqash Khalid’s debut is a savage satire of the casting business
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Reviews‘Sweet Sue’: Munich Review
Leo Leigh’s spiky feaure debut stars Maggie O’Neill as an older woman looking for love
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Reviews‘The Dive’: Munich Review
A diver fights to save her sister trapped under the waves in this claustrophobic English-language thriller from Germany.
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Reviews‘Black Box’: Munich Review
A security lockdown puts the residents of a Berlin apartment block under increasing pressure in this tense ensemble drama