Festival reviews – Page 65
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Reviews‘Alteration’: Busan Review
Busan’s Jiseok award-winner follows an Uzbek man from the early 1980s to the present
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Reviews‘Sisters’: Warsaw Review
Latvian director Linda Olte’s debut explores the failings of the country’s care system through the eyes of a 13 year-old girl
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Reviews‘A Date In Minsk’: Doclisboa Review
This one-take documentary re-stages the director’s first date with his ex-girlfriend
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Reviews‘A Landscaped Area Too Quiet For Me’: Doclisboa Review
Life passes slowly for the director’s grandparents, and a turbulent past still lingers in this award-winning documentary from Spain
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Reviews‘Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio’: London Review
The director’s first animation, a stop-motion musical for Netflix, is impressively distinctive
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Reviews‘Creature’: London Review
Asif Kapadia directs this filmed version of Akram Khan’s show for the English National Ballet
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Reviews‘She Said’: London Review
Maria Schrader deftly brings Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey’s Weinstein investigation to the screen
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Reviews‘Nocebo’: Sitges Review
Eva Green stars in Lorcan Finnegan’s atmospheric third feature, billed as the first Irish-Filipino co-production
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Reviews’The Continuing Land’: Busan Review
The lives of Korean ex-pats in Europe collide in Jo Hee-young’s accomplished debut
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Reviews‘Hail To Hell’: Busan Review
Two bullied girls seek revenge on their tormenter in this dark South Korean comedy
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Reviews‘Big Sleep’: Busan Review
A world-weary factory worker befriends a homeless boy in this debut from Kim Tae-hoon
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Reviews‘Pretty Red Dress’: London Review
An ex-con explores his true self in Dionne Edwards’ exhilarating feature debut
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Reviews‘Peafowl’: Busan Review
A trans woman returns to her rural home town in Byun Sung-bin’s assured debut
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Reviews‘Greenhouse’: Busan Review
An ambitious and increasingly discombobulating debut from Lee Sol-hui can look forward to further festival play
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Reviews‘My Father’s Dragon’: London Review
Cartoon Saloon’s Nora Twomey adapts this charming animated adaptation of the 1948 children’s book
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Reviews‘Klokkenluider’: London Review
Actor Neil Maskell makes his directorial debut with a whistleblower drama set in Belgium
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Reviews‘The Winter Within’: Busan Review
A desperate wife searches for her missing husband in modern day Kashmir
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Reviews‘A Place Called Silence’: Busan Review
Silence and secrets wield a devasating power in Sam Quah’s twisting thriller