Festival reviews – Page 64
-
Reviews‘Summerlight And Then Comes The Night’: Tallinn Review
Elfar Adalsteins returns home to Iceland to adapt the popular source novel by Jon Kalman
-
Reviews‘Siete Jereles’: Seville Review
An exploration of the flamenco traditions of the Spanish city of Jerez
-
Reviews‘All You See’: IDFA Review
IDFA opens with a Dutch debut which speaks eloquently about what it’s like to never be truly at home
-
Reviews‘Wolf And Dog’: Thessaloniki Review
Documentarian Claudia Varejao makes her fiction debut with this LGBTQ+ story set on the Azores island of Sao Miguel
-
Reviews‘Free Money’: IDFA Review
Directors Lauren DeFilippo and Sam Soko document the impact of a Universal Basic Income charity scheme in Kenya
-
Reviews‘Matadero’: Seville Review
Santiago Fillol’s directorial debut works an old Argentinian prose text into a potent modern film
-
Reviews‘Silence 6-9’: Thessaloniki Review
Strangers forge a connection in an odd Greek seaside town in this fascinating debut from Christos Passalis
-
Reviews‘Walls Can Talk’: Seville Review
Spanish veteran Carlos Saura looks back to the origins of art
-
Reviews‘Ballywalter’: Review
Seána Kerslake and Patrick Kielty make an unlikely connection in Prasanna Puwanarajah’s Northern Ireland-set debut
-
Reviews‘Narcosis’: Thessaloniki Review
First time filmmaker Martijn de Jong explores a family grappling with grief in the Netherlands’ Oscar submission
-
Reviews‘The Taste Of Apples Is Red’: Thessaloniki Review
A Druze community between Syria and Israel is the setting for Ehab Tarabieh’s fiction debut
-
Reviews‘Peacock Lament’: Tokyo Review
A desperate man takes a job with a Colombo-based human trafficker in Sanjeewa Pushpakumara’s fourth feature
-
Reviews‘Maya And The Wave’: Review
Facing into a wall of sea isn’t the only challenge this female surfer faces in a male-dominated sport
-
Reviews‘And So I’m At A Loss’: Tokyo Review
Daisuke Miura adapts his own stage play about a 20-something Tokyo slacker
-
Reviews‘Egoist’: Tokyo Review
A successful gay man navigates a new romance in Daishi Matsunaga’s satisfying character study
-
Reviews‘Glorious Ashes’: Tokyo Review
Three women eke out a life in a Vietnamese fishing village in Bui Thac Chuyen’s Tokyo competition title
-
Reviews‘by the window’: Tokyo Review
A man ponders what to do about his wife’s affair in Rikiya Imaizumi’s languid drama
-
Reviews‘Manticore’: Tokyo Review
The fourth film from Spain’s Carlos Vermut takes its isolated protaganist into dark territory
-
Reviews‘Fragments Of The Last Will’: Tokyo Review
Takahisa Zeze’s Tokyo opener is the true story of a Japanese soldier captured in a Siberian labour camp.
-
Reviews‘Blue Bag Life’: London Review
Artist Lisa Selby explores her relationship with her heroin-addict mother in this LFF prize-winning doc