Festival reviews – Page 60
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Reviews‘Theatre Of Violence’: CPH:DOX Review
A legal and ethical minefield surrounds the trial of a former Ugandan child soldier by the International Criminal Court
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Reviews‘Praying For Armageddon’: CPH:DOX Review
America’s extreme religious right is shaping the political landscape at home - and in the Middle East
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Reviews‘Total Trust’: CPH:DOX Review
Examination of China’s increasingly onerous approach to the surveillance and censorship of its citizens
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Reviews‘Songs Of Earth’: CPH:DOX Review
Margreth Olin strides into the Norwegian landscape with her 84-year-old father in this arresting documentary
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Reviews‘In The Company Of Women’: Malaga Review
The fight for abortion right in 1970s Spain is the focus of actress-director Silvia Munt’s solid feature
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Reviews‘The Punishment’: Malaga Review
A missing child is the catalyst for unravelling motherhood in Matias Bize’s taut single-take drama
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Reviews‘Big Boys’: BFI Flare Review
A 14-year-old boy struggles with his sexuality in this sensitive coming-of-age drama
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Reviews‘A Storm Foretold’: CPH:DOX Review
Incendiary documentary profile of Donald Trump’s divisive former advisor Roger Stone
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Reviews‘Angel Applicant’: SXSW Review
SXSW Documentary Competition winner is a portrait of Paul Klee by Ken August Meyer, who suffers from the same autoimmune disease as the artist
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Reviews‘Bottoms’: SXSW Review
Emma Seligman follows up ’Shiva Baby’ with this skewed high school comedy about a female student fight club
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Reviews‘Last Stop Larrimah’: SXSW Review
Inriguing HBO documentary about the strange disappearance of one of the 11 inhabitants of an Australian outback town
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Reviews‘Pianoforte’: CPH:DOX Review
Doc about Warsaw’s prestigious International Chopin Piano Competition hits all the right notes
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Reviews‘The Fishbowl’: Malaga Review
A woman striken by cancer returns to the island of her birth in this uneven Puerto Rican debut
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Reviews‘Motherland’: CPH:DOX Review
Belarus army hazing rituals are a deathly sign of the Soviet past - and a bloody presence in what is happening across the region right now
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Reviews‘Sister & Sister’: Malaga Review
Teenage sisters try to track down their father in this charming debut from Panama
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Reviews‘The Arc Of Oblivion’: CPH:DOX Review
With Werner Herzog on board, documentarian Ian Cheney explores how humans are determined to leave their trace on the earth
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Reviews‘Tetris’: SXSW Review
Taron Egerton fights for the right to bring Tetris to the world in Jon S. Baird’s uneven thriller
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Reviews‘The Stroll’: BFI Flare Review
Shunned by society, the Black and Latina trans sex workers of 14th Steet in Manhattan led dangerous lives in Kristen Lovell’s personal testament
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Reviews‘Twice Colonized’: CPH:DOX Review
Greenlandic activist Aaju Peters allows the camera to track the painful personal results of colonisation in this CPH:DOX opening film
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Reviews‘Upon Entry’: Malaga Review
‘Very clever film-making’: would-be immigrants are locked in a room by US border guards in this claustrophobic debut from Spain