Festival reviews – Page 6
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Reviews‘Swimming Home’: Rotterdam Review
An unexpected house guest upsets a family dynamic in this UK adaptation of the Man Booker Prize-nominated novel
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Reviews‘The Worst Man In London’: Rotterdam Review
Real-life art dealer Charles Augustus Howell is the eponymous cad of this 19th-century period piece
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Reviews‘In The Summers’: Sundance Review
Two girls spend years of summer holidays with their troubled father in New Mexico in this Sundance-winning debut
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Reviews‘13 Bombs’: Rotterdam Review
Jakarta authorities race to find explosives hidden across the city in this fast-paced ’24’-style thriller
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Reviews‘Flathead’: Rotterdam Review
Docu-fiction follows a raddled septuagenarian returning to his blue-collar childhood home in Australia
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Reviews‘Eternal’: Rotterdam Review
Eco-disaster sci-fi from Denmark starring pop singer Oh Land is also an off-beat love story
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Reviews’Small Hours Of The Night’: Rotterdam Review
Bold chamber drama from Singapore is set in a prison cell with a single protagonist representing the city-state’s restrictive history
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Reviews‘Hammarskjold - Fight For Peace’: Rotterdam Review
Stately biopic explores the final weeks of former UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold
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Reviews‘Milk Teeth’: Rotterdam Review
A child threatens the security of an isolated village in this atmospheric feature debut from Swiss director Sophia Bosch
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Reviews‘Veni Vidi Vici’: Rotterdam Review
Sharp Austrian satire takes careful aim at the lifestyles of the super-rich
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Reviews‘Head South’: Rotterdam Review
A teenage boy embraces New Zealand’s late Seventies post-punk scene in Jonathan Oglivie’s Rotterdam opener
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Reviews‘Look Into My Eyes’: Sundance Review
Compassionate yet neutral documentary from Lana Wilson follows a group of psychics working in New York City
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Reviews‘Skywalkers: A Love Story’: Sundance Review
A Russian couple risk their lives to secure Insta-worthy photos on perilous rooftops
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Reviews‘Sugarcane’: Sundance Review
Accomplished account of generations of abuse against Canada’s Indigenous tribes
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Reviews‘War Game’: Sundance Review
Docu-thriller follows a security simulation of a far-right group’s attempts overthrow a newly-elected US president
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Reviews‘Daughters’: Sundance Review
A father-daughter dance takes place behind prison bars in an attempt to rebuild broken bonds
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Reviews‘Rob Peace’: Sundance Review
Chiwetel Ejiofor directs - and stars in - this true-life drama about a talented Black scientist who couldn’t escape his heritage
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Reviews‘Will & Harper’: Sundance Review
Will Ferrell and his best friend Harper take a cross-country road trip after her transition
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Reviews‘Kidnapping Inc.’: Sundance Review
A kidnapping plot goes awry in this chaotic crime caper from Haiti
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Reviews‘Reinas’: Sundance Review
Tender tale of two adolescent girls reconnecting with their father in turbulent 1990s Peru