Festival reviews – Page 83
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Reviews‘Elizabeth: A Portrait In Parts’: Visions du Reel Review
The late Roger Michell’s documentary on Queen Elizabeth II offers a lasting impression of a figure of stability
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Reviews‘Chaylla’: Visions du Reel Review
An extraordinary, intimate first feature about one woman’s struggle to free herself from domestic abuse
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Reviews‘The Eclipse’: CPH:DOX Review
Natasa Urban’s timely portrait of the Serbian national psyche takes the top prize at CPH:DOX
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Reviews‘Outside’: CPH:DOX Review
Olha Zhurba’s timely debut doc follows a young boy who goes from poster child for the Ukrainian Maiden Uprising to a homeless adult
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Reviews‘Black Mambas’: CPH:DOX Review
Lena Karbe’s exploration of South Africa’s Black Mamba anti-poaching unit reveals colonial structures still in place
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Reviews‘The Chocolate War’: CPH:DOX Review
Miki Mistrati’s third documentary on the ethical failures of the chocolate industry focuses on child trafficking to the Ivory Coast
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Reviews‘Fashion Babylon’: CPH:DOX Review
Gianluca Matarrese’s doc offers an extravagant but unforgiving front row view of the insular world of fashion
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Reviews‘This Stolen Country Of Mine’: CPH:DOX Review
Award-winning documentarian Marc Wiese returns to CPH:DOX with an urgent doc on the battle between corrupt politicians and eco-warriors in Ecuador
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Reviews‘Full Of Grace’: Malaga Review
Joyful comedy starring Carmen Machi finishes Malaga Film Festival on a peal of laughter
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Reviews‘Tramps!’: Flare Review
Kevin Hegge’s feature length documentary debut about Britain’s New Romantics captures the spirit of the moment for a new generation
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Reviews’In From The Side’: Flare Review
Matt Carter’s ambitious debut feature explores the collateral damage of a passionate affair at a gay rugby club
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Reviews‘Gateways Grind’: Flare Review
Sandi Toksvig narrates Jacquie Lawrence’s debut documentary on the history of the iconic lesbian Gateways Club in London
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Reviews‘Boulevard! A Hollywood Story’: Flare Review
Jeffrey Schwarz uncovers other hidden gay lives in Hollywood via Gloria Swanson’s desire to turn ’Sunset Blvd’ into a musical
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Reviews‘Sinjar’: Malaga Review
Three women deal with the fall-out of the Islamic State massacre in Anna M Bofarull’s powerful third feature
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Reviews‘The Fall’: CPH:DOX Review
An intimate coming-of-age documentary about an eleven-year-old reclaiming her body after a sleepwalking injury
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Reviews‘Unfinished Affairs’: Malaga Review
Juan Miguel del Castillo’s second feature is a Spanish thriller that critiques the male violence of its genre
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Reviews‘Beyond The Summit’: Malaga Review
Two solitary climbers help each other on the arduous slopes of Annapurna in Ibon Cormenzana’s fourth feature
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Reviews‘What Lucia Saw’: Malaga Review
Imanol Uribe grapples with the injustice of the famous 1989 murders of Jesuits in El Salvador in this familiar morality tale
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Reviews‘Hide And Seek’: CPH:DOX Review
Victoria Fiore’s debut feature about a boy on the edge of delinquency captures the wild nature of his childhood in Naples
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Reviews‘Into The Ice’: CPH:DOX Review
CPH:DOX opens with an overwhelming experience of glaciology and climate change in Greenland