Festival reviews – Page 146
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‘Mosquito’: Rotterdam Review
Rotterdam’s opening film is a fever dream account of a young Portuguese soldier’s experiences in 1917 Mozambique
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‘Herself’: Review
An Irish single mother determines to build a house for herself after she escapes an abusive marriage
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‘Funny Face’: Review
Cosmo Jarvis takes the lead in this Brooklyn-set outsider romance from director Tim Sutton
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‘The Painter And The Thief’: Review
A burglar ends up stealing his victim’s heart in this unusual documentary from Norway
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‘Identifying Features’: Review
A mother searches for her missing son in Mexico’s borderland in a powerful first feature from Fernanda Valadez
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‘La Fortaleza’: Review
A nervy, feverish follow-up to ‘La Soledad’ from Venezuela’s promising young director Jorge Thielen Armand
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‘Relic’: Review
An elderly woman succumbs to dementia - or demons - in Natalie Erika James’ accomplished genre debut
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‘Wisdom Tooth’: Macao Review
An undocumented Chinese woman struggles to accept her beloved brother’s new girlfriend
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‘The Long Walk’: Macao Review
An elderly man is transported back to his childhood by a ghost in Mattie Do’s third feature
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‘Over The Sea’: Macao Review
After being abandoned by his parents years before, a young Chinese boy attempts to make a life in his uncle’s roadside motel
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‘Homecoming’: Macao Review
An Indonesian couple are forced to confront the cracks in their marriage after a fatal car accident
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‘Lucky Grandma’: Review
A headstrong elderly Chinese woman gets unwittingly involved with a violent New York gang
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‘Family Members’: Macao Review
Grieving siblings travel to an isolated seaside resport to say goodbye to their recently deceased mother
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‘Dance With Me’: Macao Review
A hypnotised woman feels compelled to sing and dance in Shinoby Yaguchi’s meta-musical
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‘The Coldest Game’: Tallinn Review
Bill Pullman is the alcoholic chess champion enlisted to help the Americans tackle the Cuban Missile Crisis
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‘Willow’: Tallinn Review
Three women in different times and places struggle in their attempts to become mothers
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‘Lost Lotus’: Tallinn Review
A grieving Chinese woman attempts to hunt down her mother’s hit-and-run killers
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‘Tomorrow We Are Free’: Tallinn Review
An Iranian journalist returns to Tehran with his family during the Islamic Revolution of 1979