Festival reviews – Page 196
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Reviews'The Manslayer/The Virgin/The Shadow': Tallinn Review
Triptych about Estonian womanhood is clearly accomplished filmmaking which dazzles for the most part
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Reviews'The Journey': Tallinn Review
The lives of two strangers violently collide in an Baghdad train station
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Reviews'The Deminer': IDFA Review
Winner of the Jury Prize at IDFA, this documentary looks at the reckless courage of an incendiary man in Iraq
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Reviews'The Lonely Battle Of Thomas Reid': IDFA Review
An eccentric Irish farmer takes on an industrial giant in Feargal Ward’s idiosyncratic documentary
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Reviews'Golden Dawn Girls': IDFA Review
Documentary which looks at the women behind the rise of Greece’s far right
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Reviews'The Long Season': IDFA Review
Documentary exploring life inside a bustling Lebanese refugee camp
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Reviews'Of Fathers And Sons': IDFA Review
Source: IDFA Of Fathers And Sons Dir/Scr: Talal Derki. Germany-Syria-Lebanon. 2017. 98mins Talal Derki’s first feature since his Sundance prize-winning documentary Return To Homs (2013) takes him back to a homeland that bears no resemblance to the one that he once knew. Now living in exile in ...
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Reviews'Amal': IDFA Review
A teenage girl comes of age against the backdrop of revolutionary Egypt in this stirring IDFA opener
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Reviews'A Murder In Mansfield': DOC NYC Review
Oscar-winning documentarian Barbara Kopple follows Collier Landry in his search for the truth about his mother’s murder
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Reviews'Crater': Tokyo Review
A poignant slice of neo-realism by Italian documentarians turned debut feature helmers Silvia Luzi and Luca Bellino.
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Reviews'Of Love & Law': Tokyo Review
Hikaru Toda’s eye-opening documentary examines Japanese culture through the experiences of a gay couple
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Reviews'Sveta': Tokyo Review
A deaf mute woman is pushed to extreme action to save her Kazakhstan home
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Reviews'The Looming Storm': Tokyo Review
This atmospheric Chinese procedural proves to be an immersive tempest
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Reviews'Goodbye, Grandpa!': Tokyo Review
The death of their elderly matriarch forces a reluctant Japanese family together
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Reviews‘Ajji’: Busan Review
An old woman sets about taking revenge for the brutal rape of her 10-year-old grand-daughter
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Reviews'Old Beast': Tokyo Review
An ageing man is forced to change his ways in Zhou Ziyang’s impressive debut
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Reviews'Underground': Tokyo Review
A family fight for survival in their home amongst the gravestones of a Manila cemetery
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Reviews'Sexy Durga': Tokyo Review
Two strangers attempt to traverse the dangerous terrain of India’s Kerala region
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Reviews'Fullmetal Alchemist': Tokyo Review
Director Fumihiko Sori turns the popular Japanese manga into an ambitious live-action adventure