Festival reviews – Page 56
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Reviews‘The Longest Goodbye’: Thessaloniki Review
Documentary explores the intense psychological preparation of NASA’s Mars-bound astronauts
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Reviews‘Massimo Troisi: Somebody Down There Likes Me’: Berlin Review
Affectionate biopic of the late Italian comedian and star of ’Il Postino’, Massimo Troisi
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Reviews‘Punch’: Glasgow Review
Tim Roth stars in this New Zealand-set story about a teenage boxer struggling with his sexuality
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Reviews‘Sira’: Berlin Review
A kidnapped woman fights for survival in Apolline Traoré’s north Africa-set Berlin award winner
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Reviews‘The Black Guelph’: Dublin Review
Actor John Connors goes behind the camera to tell a story of generational neglect and abuse set in Dublin’s inner city
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Reviews‘Here’: Berlin Review
Two solitary souls find comfort in the natural world in Bas Devos’ Encounters-winning feature
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Reviews‘The Klezmer Project’: Berlin Review
Docu-fiction exploring the enduring legacy of Yiddish klezmer music won the first feature award at Berlin
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Reviews‘She-Hero’: Berlin Review
A quest through the Slovakian forest to find a missing bird propels this charming Berlin Generation Kplus winner
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Reviews‘Notes From Sheepland’: Dublin Review
Life with Wexford shepherd Orla Barry makes for an entrancing, compact documentary
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Reviews‘Ann’: Dublin Review
Ciaran Creagh’s true-life period drama focuses on a pregnant teenager in a small Irish town in 1984
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Reviews‘The Last Night Of Amore’: Berlin Review
A strait-laced cop goes rogue on his last night in the job in Andrea Di Stefano’s stylish Italian crime thriller
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Reviews‘Till the End of the Night’: Berlin Review
Christoph Hochhäusler’s genre reconstruction takes too long to dawn
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Reviews‘On The Adamant’: Berlin Review
Nicolas Philibert climbs aboard the titular floating Parisian day centre for this warm documentary
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Reviews‘Art College 1994’: Berlin Review
Liu Jian follows up ‘Have A Nice Day’ with this picture postcard from China during the seismic 1990s
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Reviews‘The Future Tense’: Dublin Review
Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor’s ‘profound and poetic’ doc explores the changing relationship between people and place
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Reviews‘Green Night’: Berlin Review
Fan Bingbing and Lee Joo-young go on the lam in Han Shuai’s moody Seoul-set drama
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Reviews‘Limbo’: Berlin Review
The ’opal capital of the world’ is the uncanny setting for Ivan Sen’s brooding black-and-white Australian noir
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Reviews‘Under The Sky Of Damascus’: Berlin Review
The testimonies of Syrian woman inform this hard-hitting documentary from the war-torn city of Damascus
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Reviews‘Suzume’: Berlin Review
Makoto Shinkai’s latest lavish anime fantasy is a cosmic coming-of-age crowdpleaser
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Reviews‘Living Bad’: Berlin Review
Joao Canijo returns to the mordernist hotel of his ‘Bad Living’ to take account of the guests in this mirror film