Festival reviews – Page 5
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Reviews‘Suspended Time’: Berlin Review
Olivier Assayas’s nostalgic, introspective lockdown drama is loosely based on the director’s own life
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Reviews‘Treasure’: Berlin Review
Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry play a Jewish father and daughter returning to Poland after the fall of the Iron Curtain
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Reviews‘Another End’: Berlin Review
Gael Garcia Bernal must confront memories made flesh in this near-future sci-fi
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Reviews‘No Other Land’: Berlin Review
A Palestinian-Israeli collective documents how a beleaguered West Bank community is resisting the Israeli army
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Reviews‘From Hilde, With Love’: Review
Liv Lisa Fries plays German resistance fighter Hilde Coppi in this powerhouse biopic
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Reviews‘Sleep With Your Eyes Open’: Berlin Review
Three Asian travellers make tentative connections in this light Brazil-set drama
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Reviews‘Above The Dust’: Berlin Review
Wang Xiaoshuai’s latest is a haunting parable of a disappearing rural China
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Reviews’Turn In The Wound’: Berlin Review
Abel Ferrara’s documentary is an awkward meld of the Ukraine conflict with a Patti Smith installation
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Reviews‘La Cocina’: Berlin Review
Alonso Ruizpalacios tries to turn up the heat in this version of Arnold Wesker’s stage play starring Rooney Mara
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Reviews‘Cuckoo’: Berlin Review
Hunter Schafer impresses in this ’entertainingly-deranged’ horror from Tilman Singer, set in the Bavarian Alps
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Reviews‘Last Swim’: Berlin Review
Freewheeling London-set debut is a confident opener to Berlin’s Generations sidebar
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Reviews‘All Shall Be Well’: Berlin Review
A sudden death is a tipping point for a long-term lesbian couple in Ray Yeung’s Hong Kong-set social drama
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Reviews‘The Adamant Girl’: Berlin Review
A road trip to a shaman forms the basis of Vinothraj PS’s follow-up to ‘Pebbles’
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Reviews‘My Favourite Cake’: Berlin Review
A lonely septuagenarian grabs a second chance at happiness in this rich tragicomedy from Iran
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Reviews‘At Averroes & Rosa Parks’: Berlin Review
Nicolas Philibert profiles two Parisian psychiatric units in the second of a planned trilogy following ’On The Adamant’
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Reviews‘Favoriten’: Berlin Review
Documentary spends three years following an inner-city Viennese primary school
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Reviews‘Crossing’: Berlin Review
An ageing Georgian woman travels to Istanbul in search of her trans niece in Panorama’s elegaic opener
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Reviews‘Small Things Like These’: Berlin Review
Cillian Murphy is a quiet man with a conscience in 1980s Ireland in this adaptation of Claire Keegan’s novella
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Reviews‘Rei’: Rotterdam Review
Rotterdam’s Tiger winner is an ambitious debut from actor-turned-filmmaker Toshihiko Tanaka
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Reviews‘The Old Bachelor’: Rotterdam Review
Rotterdam Big Screen winner is a vision of Iran rarely seen on screen