Festival reviews – Page 158
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‘H Is For Happiness’: Melbourne Review
A can-do teenage heroine tries to fix her family’s problems in this sparky Australian debut
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‘7500’: Locarno Review
Flawed but impressive, Patrick Vollrath’s debut is set entirely inside the cockpit of a hijacked plane
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‘Maternal’: Locarno Review
A home for unmarried mothers is the setting of documentarist Maura Delpero’s first fiction feature
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‘If Only’: Locarno Review
Locarno opens with a debut starring Riccardo Scamarcio and Alba Rohrwacher
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‘Below’: Melbourne Review
Confrontational debut is a black comedy set in an immigration detention centre
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‘Relativity’: Munich Review
A German couple grapples with an overwhelming sensation of deja vu
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‘Measure For Measure’: Melbourne Review
Shakespeare in Melbourne, with Hugo Weaving as the crime boss of a block of public apartments
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‘The Australian Dream’: Melbourne Review
The Melbourne Film Festival opens with a stirring documentary about the Australian Rules footballer Adam Goodes, directed by the UK’s Daniel Gordon
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‘Never Grow Old’: Galway Review
An undertaker profits when a gang of bounty hunters take over his small frontier town
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'Jihad Jane': Galway Review
Intriguing documentary about self-styled white American jihadi Colleen LaRose
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'Breaking Out': Galway Review
Enriching and intimate portrait of late Irish musician Fergus O’Farrell
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'A Bump Along The Way': Galway Review
A single mother and her uptight teenage daughter must deal with an unexpected pregnancy
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'Patrick': Karlovy Vary Review
Intriguing debut from Belgian director Tim Mielands is set in a nudist camp
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'The Father': Karlovy Vary Review
A middle-aged man attempts to stop his widowed father coming off the rails
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‘Mosaic Portrait’: Karlovy Vary Review
A pregnant Chinese schoolgirl finds herself under intense scrutiny
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'The True Adventures Of Wolfboy': Karlovy Vary Review
A young boy suffering from hypertrichosis runs away from home to find his estranged mother
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'Half-Sister': Karlovy Vary Review
Two Slovenian half-sisters reluctantly begin to bond when they are forced to share a home
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'Lara': Munich/Karlovy Vary Review
Corinne Harfouch is powerful as a jealous mother who struggles to cope with the prospect of her son’s success where she has failed