Festival reviews – Page 5
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Reviews‘Riverbed’: Cairo Review
A mother and daughter struggle to reconnect in Bassem Breche’s imagery-led feature debut
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‘Typist Artist Pirate King’: Tallinn Review
Carol Morley presents a fictionalised portrait of little-known avant-garde schizophrenic artist Audrey Amiss
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‘The Astronaut’: Cairo Review
Nicolas Giraud’s portrait of a French loner sending himself to space fails to get off the ground
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‘Apolonia, Apolonia’: IDFA Review
IDFA’s International Competition winner is an intimate portrait of Danish-French artist Apolonia Sokol
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‘19B’: Cairo Review
An elderly caretaker tends to a crumbling Cairo villa in Ahmad Abdalla’s engaging third feature
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‘Alam’: Cairo Review
A Palestinian-Israeli teenager struggles to shake off the weight of history in Firas Khoury’s feature debut
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‘How Dare You Have Such A Rubbish Wish’: IDFA Review
Mania Akbari explores the depiction of women on screen through an archive of pre-Revlutionary Iranian cinema
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‘Personality Crisis: One Night Only’: IDFA Review
Former New York Dolls frontman David Johansen brings his Buster Poindexter persona to the Manhattan stage
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‘Bread And Salt’: Cairo Review
Damian Kocur’s mature and thought-provoking debut sees a talented pianist return to the pressure cooker of his small home town
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‘My Name Is Happy’: IDFA Review
British co-production looks at femicide through the story of Turkish survivor Mutlu Kaya
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‘The Last Dolphin King’: IDFA Review
Netflix documentary takes on the case of controversial Spanish dolphin trainer Jose Luis Barbero
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‘I Don’t Want To Be Dust’: Cairo Review
An older woman confronts the end of the world in Ivan Lowenberg’s second feature
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‘Far From The Nile’: Cairo Review
Sherief Elkatsha captures the harmonious sound of The Nile Project, a musical collaborative of 11 African countries
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‘Look What You Made Me Do’: IDFA Review
Coco Schrijber explores cases in which women have killed their abusive partners
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‘Dignity’: Thessaloniki Review
A Greek family struggle with their patriarch’s ailing health in Dimitris Katsimiris’ tense chamber piece
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‘Black Stone’: Thessaloniki Review
Eleni Kokkidou carries the comedy in Spiros Jacovides’ Thessaloniki award-winning debut
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’Behind The Haystacks': Thessaloniki Review
Asimina Proedrou’s Thessaloniki award-winning debut follows three members of a family on the Greek/North Macedonian border
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‘Tinnitus’: Cairo Review
An professional diver does battle with her body in Gregorio Graziosi’s stylish thriller
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‘The Lost Souls Of Syria’: IDFA Review
European lawyers seek justice for victims of Syria’s genocide in this hard-hitting documentary
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‘Much Ado About Dying’: IDFA Review
Documentarian Simon Chambers captures the final five years of his eccentric uncle’s life
