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Festival reviews – Page 8
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Reviews‘The Visitor’ review: Lithuanian debut takes a fresh approach to the issue of migration
A Lithuanian ex-pat struggles to return home in Vytautas Katkus’s impressive move to features
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Reviews‘The Luminous Life’ review: A Lisbon spring brings new opportunities for a troubled 20-something
The debut feature from Joao Rosas is a continuation of three previous short films
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Reviews‘Re-creation’ review: Vicky Krieps stars in reimagining of Sophie Toscan du Plantier murder trial
Unwieldy feature presents a fictional Irish trial for the real-life 1996 murder of the French film producer
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Reviews‘Sand City’ review: Two disparate lives are linked by sand in lyrical Bangladeshi feature
Dhaka-set drama is debut feature of short filmmaker Mahde Hasan
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Reviews‘Out Of Love’ review: Camille Cottin stars as a French woman flung into motherhood
Nathan Ambrosioni’s intimate drama premieres in Karlovy Vary
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Reviews‘Dragonfly’ review: Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn headline potent Paul Andrew Williams drama
Williams returns to the big screen with unnerving study of a community in crisis
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Reviews‘A Quiet Love’ review: Sensitive documentary follows three deaf Irish couples
Film is first Irish feature to be told entirely in Irish Sign Language
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Reviews‘Brick’ review: A German couple hits the wall in satisfying Netflix thriller
Philip Koch’s sci-fi drama bows on the streamer following its Munich premiere
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Reviews‘I’m Not Stiller’ review: Paula Beer and Albrecht Schuch star in 1950s Zurich-set thriller
Stefan Haupt’s adaptation of Max Frisch’s novel about identity premieres in Munich
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Reviews‘All That’s Due’ review: A German family comes undone in Franz Müller’s strained domestic drama
The Munich premiere is a sequel to Müller’s 2009 feature ‘Wallace Line’
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Reviews‘Karla’ review: A young girl seeks justice in delicately calibrated German debut
Rainer Bock stars in Christina Tournatzés’ 1960s-set feature
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Reviews‘The Last Spy’ review: CIA spymaster Peter Sichel shares his eye-opening life story
Katharina Otto-Bernstein’s extensive documentary follows Sichel’s involvement in key moments of 20th-century history
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Reviews‘Saturn’ review’: Transilvania non-fiction winner paints complex portrait of fractured Spanish family
Director Daniel Tornero turns the camera inwards for his What’s Up, Doc? winning debut
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Reviews‘Bright Future’ review: Romanian documentary revisits 1989 Pyongyang Festival of Youth and Students
Andra MacMasters’ archival essay named best debut feature in Transilvania’s Romanian Days
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Reviews‘Endless Cookie’ review: Annecy’s Contrechamp winner is an inventive portrait of Canadian half-brothers
Seth Scriver and Peter Scriver’s animated documentary is a “picture infused with love”
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Reviews’ChaO’ review: Anarchic Japanese anime imagines a fantastical near-future Shanghai
Animator Yasuhiro Aoki makes his debut with this energetic tale of human-merpeople relationships
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Reviews‘Olivia And The Invisible Earthquake’ review: Empathetic Spanish stop-motion captures life on the poverty line
Irene Iborra Rizo’s accomplished Barcelona-set debut premieres in Annecy competition
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Reviews‘Arco’ review: Natalie Portman produces appealing French time-travel animation
Ugo Bienvenu’s 2D debut feature sees a boy from the far future crash-land in 2075
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Reviews‘Stitch Head’ review: Burtonesque animation is adapted from Guy Bass children’s books
Asa Butterfield and Rob Brydon lend their voices to Steve Hudson’s charming creature feature
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Reviews‘Animal Farm’ review: Director Andy Serkis softens George Orwell classic for family animation
Seth Rogen and Kieran Culkin lend their voices to this long-gestating project