Festival reviews – Page 195
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Reviews'A Day': Macao Review
A South Korean doctor must relive the day of his daughter’s death until he finds a way to save her
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Reviews'The Outlaws': Macao Review
Dong Seok-Ma is a no-nonsense cop in Yun-Sung Kang’s gritty crime thriller
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Reviews'Camera': Dubai Review
A video camera found deep in the desert reveals the truth behind a series of mysterious deaths.
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Reviews'Cactus Flower': Dubai Review
Two Egyptian women find themselves thrown out onto the busy streets of Cairo.
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Reviews'The Last Recipe': Macao Review
A failing Japanese chef sets out to find a legendary recipe from the 1930s
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Reviews'The Charmer': Dubai Review
An Iranian man seeking a Danish bride finds romance increasingly dark and complex.
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Reviews'The Blessed': Dubai Review
Disillusionment and generational frustrations come to the surface as an Algerian couple celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary
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Reviews'Burnout': Dubai Review
Three story strands interweave against the backdrop of contemporary Morocco.
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Reviews'Zagros': Dubai Review
Jealousy and bitterness accompany a Kurdish shepherd as he follows his wife to Belgium.
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Reviews'Kiss Me Not': Dubai Review
An actress who has found religion refuses to film an all-important kiss in Ahmed Amer’s feature debut
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Reviews'Night Accident': Tallinn Review
A motorbike accident brings redemption for both driver and victim in Tallinn’s Grand Prix winner
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Reviews'Excavator': Tallinn Review
Kim Ki-duk wrote and produced this sensitive second feature from Korea’s Ju Lee-Hyoung
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Reviews'Four Hands': Tallinn Review
A deftly-handled thriller from Germany about two sisters and one damaged mind benefits from a gung-ho attitude to gore
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Reviews'Secret Ingredient': Tallinn Review
This bittersweet cancer comedy from Macedonia finds its humour in dark places
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Reviews'Asphyxia': Tallinn Review
A run-down mental health hospital in Tehran is the setting for Fereydoun Jeyrani’s brooding and stylish thriller
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Reviews'Vampire Clay': Tallinn Review
An attack of sentient killer modelling putty in a provincial Japanese art school proves unintentionally hilarious
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Reviews'The Distant Barking Of Dogs': IDFA Review
IDFA winner is the sensitively-told story of an orphaned 10 year-old boy living next to a battle zone in Eastern Ukraine
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Reviews'Summer Children': Tallinn Review
The young residents of an Icelandic children’s home seek solace in fantastical tales
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Reviews'Bingo: The King Of The Mornings': Tallinn Review
Brazil’s official Oscar submission gets under the skin of the country’s most famous TV clown