Festival reviews – Page 91
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Reviews‘Emergency’: Sundance Review
Timely social commentary satire falls short of its subject’s worthy mark
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Reviews‘A Love Song’: Sundance Review
Dale Dickey and Wes Studi’s intimate performances anchor arthouse debut
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Reviews‘Tantura’: Sundance Review
Israeli documentary investigates controversial events at the Arab village of Tantura from 1948
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Reviews‘La Guerra Civil’: Sundance Review
Director Eva Longoria Baston pulls no punches in her portrait of rival boxers Julio Cesar Chavel and Oscar De La Hoya
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Reviews‘Fire Of Love’: Sundance Review
Miranda July narrates sensitive tribute to French volcanologists
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Reviews‘When You Finish Saving The World’: Sundance Review
Jesse Eisenberg makes his directorial debut with this biting family drama
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Reviews‘The Exam’: Red Sea Review
Shawkat Amin Korki’s taut drama concerns a young woman who risks everything to ensure she passes her exams
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Reviews‘Broken Keys’: Red Sea Review
Jimmy Keyrouz’s impressive debut feature chronicles the horrors of war-torn Syria
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Reviews‘Daughters of Abdul-Rahman’: Cairo/Red Sea Review
Squabbling sisters try to find their way in Jordan’s all-powerful patriarchy
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Reviews‘Farha’: Red Sea Review
Darin J. Sallam delivers a harrowing debut in this portrait of a Palestinian woman hiding out from Israeli forces
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Reviews‘Communion’: Red Sea Review
Writer-director Nejib Belkadhi stars as a man battling mental illness in the midst of the Covid-19 lockdown
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Reviews‘Paka (River Of Blood)’: Red Sea Review
A long-standing blood feud between rival families gets reignited in this savage, vividly realised tale
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Reviews‘The Sea Ahead’: Red Sea Review
Ely Dagher’s striking first feature is a poetic look at a woman who returns home, finding a city she no longer recognises
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Reviews‘Abu Saddam’: Cairo Review
A veteran trucker and his assistant deliver a powerful portrayal of toxic masculinity for Egyptian director and co-writer Nadine Khan
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Reviews‘Becoming’: Cairo/Red Sea Review
All-female anthology takes a sparky driver’s seat approach to life in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Reviews‘The Stranger’: Cairo Review
Palestine’s submission to the international Oscar category is set in the disputed Golan Heights
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Reviews‘107 Mothers’: Cairo Review
Inside a women’s prison in Ukraine, incarcerated mothers are forced to hand their children over for adoption
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Reviews‘Dear Thomas’: Tallinn Review
Black and white portrait of the East German man of letters Thomas Brasch wins the top prize at the Black Nights Film Festival
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Reviews‘Cadejo Blanco’: Tallinn Review
In Guatemala, a young woman goes in desperate search of her sister in Justin Lerner’s nailbiting drama
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Reviews‘Eskape’: IDFA Review
Neary Adeline Hay retraces the steps she took as a child refugee feeling post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia