Festival reviews – Page 126
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‘Socks On Fire’: IDFA Review
A gay Southern film-maker comes to terms with a dramatic family rift
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‘Radiograph Of A Family’: IDFA Review
What led Firouzeh Khosrovani’s mother to embrace revolutionary Islam so fervently?
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‘Poppy Field’: Tallinn Review
A gay police officer in Romania is trapped in a personal and professional struggle
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‘Dormant’: IDFA Review
Natalia Labake’s film about the women in her family is haunted by lost souls and unfulfilled lives
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‘When I’m Done Dying’: Tallinn Review
This potent romance set in Istanbul’s underground rap scene has a loose-limbed swagger
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‘Inside The Red Brick Wall’: IDFA Review
A deep dive into the stand-off between police and protesters at Hong Kong’s Polytechnic University last year
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‘The Penultimate’: Tallinn Review
An unusual debut from Denmark which challenges the audience on every level
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‘Gorbachev. Heaven’: IDFA Review
A true Titan of history tells his story - or the parts of it he’s comfortable with - to a probing Vitaly Mansky
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‘White Noise’: IDFA Review
A deep-dive inside the Alt-Right movement with director Daniel Lombroso
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‘The Sign Painter’: Tallinn Review
Latvia’s wartime drama is a playful crowdpleaser set for North American release
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‘Landfall’: IDFA Review
The combination of the poetic and the polemical speaks volumes as Cecilia Aldarondo surveys the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
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‘Model Olimpia’: Tallinn Review
An unflinching take on a strange partnership between a monther and her troubled son
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‘Nothing But The Sun’: IDFA Review (Opening Film)
IDFA 2020 starts with a powerful and moving look at the disenfranchised Ayoreo people of Paraguay
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‘Til Kingdom Come’: IDFA Review
A provocative look at the links between Israel and American evangelical Christian groups
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‘The Translator’: Tallinn Review
An exiled translator risks everything to return to Syria and rescue his brother
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‘The Care Of Others’: Thessaloniki Review
Deceptively simple but emotionally jarring mid-length feature from Argentina
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‘Death On The Streets’: Thessaloniki Review
A family man struggles to put bread on the table in this low-key examination of America’s bankrupt dream