Festival reviews – Page 63
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‘Someday We’ll Tell Each Other Everything’: Berlin Review
A young woman embarks on a taboo relationship just after the fall of the Berlin Wall in Emily Atef’s elegant, erotic drama
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‘The Beast In The Jungle’: Berlin Review
Anaïs Demoustier sparkles in this most recent adaptation of Henry James’s celebrated novella
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‘El Eco’: Berlin Review
Tatiana Huezo’s documentary set in a remote Mexican mountain community is an intimate, immersive portrait of a way of life
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‘The Siren’: Berlin Review
Sepideh Farsi’s arresting animation, set during the Iran-Iraq War, opens the Panorama section at Berlin
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‘She Came To Me’: Berlin Review
Rebecca Miller’s wry, knotty drama about a composer and his new muse opens the Berlinale
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’Endless Borders’: Rotterdam Review
Rotterdam’s Big Screen winner takes place on Iran’s remote and troubled border with Afghanistan
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‘The Spectre Of Boko Haram’: Rotterdam Review
Sensitive Tiger-winning documentary looks at the impact of terror group Boko Haram on the lives of young people
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‘La Palisiada’: Rotterdam Review
Darkly comic Ukrainian cop thriller effectively mines the country’s difficult post-Soviet history
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‘Joram’: Rotterdam Review
Devashish Makhija’s cat-and-mouse thriller is a race across India’s troubled interior
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‘A House In Jerusalem’: Rotterdam Review
Muayad Alayan ventures into genre with his third feature, a UK/Palestinian co-production set in a rambling old house in West Jerusalem
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‘Copenhagen Does Not Exist’: Rotterdam Review
A man looks back over an intense relationship in this Danish drama written by Eskil Vogt
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‘A Little Prayer’: Sundance Review
David Straithairn shines in this North Carolina-set family drama, picked up by Sony at Sundance
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‘Going To Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project’: Sundance Review
This Sundance Grand Jury prizewinner is an unconventional documentary about African American poet Nikki Giovanni
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‘The Persian Version’: Sundance Review
Layla Mohammadi is a standout in Maryam Keshavarz’s crowdpleasing Iranian-American drama
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‘A Thousand And One’: Sundance Review
A mother and son struggle to survive in a gentrifying New York City in this Focus Features release
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‘Radical’: Sundance Review
Eugenio Derbez is as an inspirational teacher working in a deprived part of Mexico in this sincere, conventional drama
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‘Scrapper’: Sundance Review
Harris Dickinson stars in this Sundance award-winning drama about a grieving 12-year-old who attempts to reconnect with her father
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‘Beyond Utopia’: Sundance Review
The desperate stories of North Koreans trying to defect - and the South Korean pastor who helps them
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‘Kokomo City’: Sundance Review
Black transgender sex workers tell their stories to Grammy-nominated singer/songwriter D. Smith
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‘The Eternal Memory’: Sundance Review
Maite Alberdi follows up ‘The Mole Agent’ with this deeply moving story of a couple coping with Alzheimer’s disease