Festival reviews – Page 75
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Reviews‘The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra’: Bifan Review
A lonely fungus seeks human contact in Park Syeyoung’s surprisingly wistful genre debut
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Reviews‘The Unstable Object II’: FIDMarseille Review
Daniel Eisenberg presents another closely-observed, absorbing portrait of three international businesses
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Reviews‘Christina’: FIDMarseille Review
Nikola Spasic builds a compelling docu-fiction around the titular Serbian transgender sex worker
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Reviews‘Lucie Loses Her Horse’: FIDMarseille Review
Claude Schmitz reworks his Covid-cancelled theatre production into a dreamlike drama about the power of performance
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Reviews‘Summer With Hope’: Karlovy Vary Review
A swimming competition is the catalyst for Iranian filmmaker Sadaf Foroughi’s well-observed Crystal Globe winner
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Reviews‘Lakelands’: Galway Review
Small town Irish drama brings a fresh feel to the familiar narrative of a young man facing an uncertain future
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Reviews‘Tarrac’: Galway Review
Decklan Recks puts some wind in the sails of the sporting underdog tale with this all-female rowing drama
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Reviews‘A Provincial Hospital’: Karlovy Vary Review
Accompished documentary looks at Covid-19 in a small town in Bulgaria
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Reviews‘The Sparrow’: Galway Review
Michael Kinirons makes a striking debut with this sensitively handled drama of a family lost in their grief
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Reviews‘Afghan Dreamers’: Galway Review
Stirring documentary about the mixed fortunes of the Afghan Girls Robotics Team
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Reviews‘Clouded Reveries’: Galway Review
Ciara Nic Chormaic presents an intimate, poetic portrait of writer Doireann Ni Ghriofa
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Reviews‘A Room Of My Own’: Karlovy Vary Review
The power of female friendship comes under the microscope in this accomplished second feature from Georgia
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Reviews‘America’: Karlovy Vary Review
Ofir Raul Grazier breathes new life into the love triangle with his follow-up to ‘The Cakemaker’
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Reviews‘Joyride’: Galway Review
Opening the Galway Fleadh, Emer Reynolds’ somewhat contrived feelgood drama stars Olivia Colman and newcomer Charlie Reid
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Reviews‘Ramona’: Karlovy Vary Review
Lourdes Hernandez is an engrossing presence in Andrea Bagney’s drama about modern millenial angst
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Reviews‘June Zero’: Karlovy Vary Review
Adolf Eichman’s trial is at the core of Jake Paltrow’s sixties-set drama
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Reviews‘The Uncle’: Karlovy Vary Review
This effective if derivative calling-card debut from Croatia bows in Karlovy Vary’s inaugural Proxima competition
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Reviews‘Fucking Bornholm’ : Karlovy Vary Review
Tensions derail a holiday with friends in Anna Kazejak’s well-observed Danish drama
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Reviews‘Vesper’: Karlovy Vary Review
Ecological fragility fuels this dystopian sci-fi from Kristina Buozyte and Bruno Samper
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Reviews‘The Ordinaries’: Munich Review
Filmmaker Sophie Linnenbaum makes an inventive debut with this political satire set in a parallel cinematic world