Festival reviews – Page 197
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Reviews'Anchor And Hope': London Review
Three independent spirits face up to the realities of parenthood in London
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Reviews'Love Education': Busan Review
Sylvia Chang’s Busan closer details the lives of three generations of Chinese women
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Reviews'Under The Family Tree': Busan Review
A mother and daughter undergo bizarre family therapy in a woodland retreat
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Reviews'The Man With The Magic Box': Busan Review
Polish science fiction thriller in which a man discovers a radio and, with in, a past life
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Reviews'Upside Down': Busan Review
Two strangers connect over Skype against the backdrop of protest in Portugal
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Reviews'Head. Two Ears': Busan Review
A Russian farmer finds his new job as a security guard isn’t all it appeared to be
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Reviews'Veleno': Busan Review
Two farming brothers go up against the local mobsters who want their land in this Italian crime drama
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Reviews'Silent Mist': Busan Review
A Chinese village is beset by a series of violent crimes in this drama based on true events
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Reviews'Violeta At Last': Busan Review
Eugenia Chaverri stars as a 72-year-old woman making the most of life in Costa Rica
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Reviews'Bitter Flowers': Busan Review
A Chinese woman’s attempts to earn money in Paris leads her into a life of prostitution
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Reviews'Goliath': Busan Review
A young man turns to steroids to improve his self-worth in Dominik Locher’s second feature
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Reviews'Loving Vincent': London Review
The world’s first oil-painted animation explores the mysterious death of Vincent Van Gogh
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Reviews'Pulse': Busan Review
Source: BIFF Pulse Dir. Stevie Cruz-Martin. Australia, 2017, 84 mins. Low budget Australian drama Pulse takes cues from real life experience to deliver a body- and gender-swapping sci-fi which examines appearance, sexuality and disability. First time feature writer-actor Daniel Monks joins forces with his regular short film ...
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Reviews'Smaller And Smaller Circles': Busan Review
A priest investigates the brutal murder of a young boy
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Reviews'Tarling Is Darling': Busan Review
Documentary exploring the changing world of Indonesian dangdut music
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Reviews'Never Steady, Never Still': Busan Review
A woman with Parkinson’s Disease struggles to help her son in the isolation of British Columbia
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Reviews'The Bold, The Corrupt And The Beautiful': Busan Review
A matriarch attempts to manouevre her family into a position of power
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Reviews'The Scythian Lamb': Busan Review
Ex-convicts take up residence in a Japanese seaside town in Yoshida Daihachi’s black comedy
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Reviews'The Forgiven': London Review
Roland Joffe’s drama stars Forest Whitaker as Archbishop Desmond Tutu opposite Eric Bana as a convicted murderer
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Reviews'The Last Suit': Busan Review
An octogenarian heads off on adventure in this Argentinian road movie