Festival reviews
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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
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Reviews‘Dandelion’s Odyssey’ review: Artistic animation takes a plant’s eye-view of the apocalypse
Momoko Seto’s dialogue-free feature blends computer animation and time-lapse photography
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Reviews‘The Mysterious Gaze Of The Flamingo’ review: Un Certain Regard winner is set in 1980s Chile
AIDS is making its presence felt within an alternative community in the mining region
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Reviews‘Honey Don’t’ review: Margaret Qualley plays a PI in Ethan Coen’s slight California comedy
Qualley brings some grit to her gumshoe, even if the road is uneven
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Reviews‘13 Days 13 Nights’ review: Roschdy Zem stars in real-life Kabul extraction thriller
Dramatisation of removal of French citizens from Afghanistan in August 2021
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Reviews‘The Mastermind’ review: Kelly Reichardt’s sombre slice of 1970s Americana stars Josh O’Connor
The actor plays a down-at-heel failed art thief in the director’s Competition entry
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Reviews‘Young Mothers’ review: Five teenage mothers form the nucleus of the Dardenne brothers’ latest
The writer/directors filmed in a residential shelter for mothers near Liege
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Reviews‘Resurrection’ review: Jackson Yee stars in Bi Gan’s sprawling cinematic vision
Period-hopping Competition title also stars Shu Qi and Li Gengxi
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Reviews‘Love On Trial’ review: Koji Fukada’s drama reveals the dark side of the J-pop phenomenon
A female singer faces a lawsuit for having a boyfriend in this underpowered Cannes Premiere