Festival reviews – Page 10
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Reviews‘Once Again’ (for the very first time)’: Tallinn Review
A street dancer and a poet form a creative connection in Boaz Yakin’s unconventional New York romance
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Reviews‘Bad Actor’: Tallinn Review
Intense Mexican drama observes what happens when an actor crosses a line during a sex scene
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Reviews‘Hiding Saddam Hussein’: IDFA Review
Iraqi farmer Alaa Namiq explains how and why he hid Saddam Hussein from US forces in 2003
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Reviews‘The World Is Family’: IDFA Review
Veteran documentarian Anand Patwardhan turns the camera on his own parents to reflect on India’s turbulent history
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Reviews‘As The Tide Comes In’: IDFA Review
Residents on the tiny Danish island of Mando confront the realities of climate change in this immersive documentary
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Reviews‘The Last’: IDFA Review
Paraguayan filmmaker Sebastian Pena Escobar takes a personal trip to the country’s threatened forests
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Reviews‘Selling A Colonial War’: IDFA Review
An examination of Dutch attempts to reframe the Indonesian War Of Independence
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Reviews‘The G’: Tallinn Review
Dale Dickey shines as a pensioner woman determined to take revenge on those who would exploit her
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Reviews‘Misericordia’: Tallinn Review
Three Italian sex workers care for a vulnerable man in Emma Dante’s allegorical third feature
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Reviews‘Danger Zone’: IDFA Review
Eye-popping documentary follows so-called ’war tourists’ to active front lines
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Reviews‘The Clinic’: IDFA Review
Midi Z’s portrait of a Myanmar health clinic widens to explore the plight of a country in turmoil
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Reviews‘The Quiet Maid’: Tallinn Review
The Colombian maid for a wealthy Spanish family begins to expand her own horizons in this accomplished debut
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Reviews‘Touched’: Thessaloniki Review
A paralysed man embarks on a clandestine relationship with his care assistant in this frank German drama
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Reviews‘Guest Star’: Thessaloniki Review
Vasilis Christofilakis writes, directs and stars in this Greek celebrity satire
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Reviews‘Cafe’: Thessaloniki Review
Jailed Iranian filmmaker Navid Mihanoust presents an self-referential tale of a director living in limbo while waiting for a prison sentence
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Reviews‘We Have Never Been Modern’: Thessaloniki Review
Period Czech drama set at the dawn of the Second World War has a decidedly modern sensibility
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Reviews‘Patient #1’: Tallinn Review
A young nurse in Moscow at the end of the Soviet era struggles to care for a VIP patient
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Reviews‘Murderess’: Thessaloniki Review
Unrelentingly brutal period drama about an ageing midwife who battles the patriarchy in a remote Greek village
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Reviews‘A Picture To Remember’: IDFA Review
IDFA 2023 opens with an intimate film about the effects of war on one Ukranian family
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Reviews‘Snow In Midsummer’: Review
Festival heavyweight revisits the tragic race riots that occured in Kuala Lumpur on May 13, 1969