Festival reviews – Page 9
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Reviews‘Three’: Red Sea Review
Djinn genre outing from Dubai focuses on a clash between Western medicine and Arabic tradition
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Reviews‘Backstage’: Red Sea Review
Members of a Moroccan dance troup find themselves lost in the woods in this spellbinding drama
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Reviews‘Dalma’: Red Sea Review
The arrival of a single woman creates escalating tension on the small Emirati island of Dalma
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Reviews‘Wakhri’: Red Sea Review
Well-intentioned drama takes inspiration from a real-life Pakistani honour killing
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Reviews‘Sunday’: Red Sea Review
An elderly Uzbek couple take centre stage in a deadpan drama which is winning festival plaudits
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Reviews‘Naga’: Red Sea Review
A young Saudi woman fights to make it home in time for curfew in this propulsive desert-set Netflix comedy thriller
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Reviews‘HWJN’: Red Sea Review
Red Sea opener is an ambitious fantasy epic set in contemporary Jeddah
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Reviews‘Hajjan’: Red Sea Review
A teenager develops a love of camel racing in this Saudi Arabia-set coming-of-age drama
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Reviews‘Silent Night’: Review
John Woo returns to American filmmaking with this dialogue-free revenge thriller
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Reviews‘DEPOT - Reflecting Boijmans’: Review
Rotterdam’s state-of-the-art statement by Sonia Herman Dolz is an irrestible advert for an edifice
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Reviews‘Familiar’: Tallinn Review
A Romanian director attempts to shape his family’s darkest secrets into a film in the abrasive latest from Calin Peter Netzer
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Reviews‘The Moon Is Upside Down’: Tallinn Review
The lives of three lonely New Zealand women intersect in Tallinn’s First Feature winner
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Reviews‘Tehachapi’: IDFA Review
French artist JR mounts a large-scale project at the maximum security California Correctional Centre
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Reviews‘1489’: IDFA Review
IDFA winner from Armenia is an intensely personal portrait of a family coping with the loss of a brother and son in the 2020 Artsakh war
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Reviews‘Life Is Beautiful’: IDFA Review
Palestinian filmmaker Mohamed Jabaly documents his fight to return to Gaza
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Reviews‘Invisible Nation’: IDFA Review
Profile of Tsai Ing-wen, Taiwan’s first female president, and her fight on the global stage
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Reviews‘Once Again’ (for the very first time)’: Tallinn Review
A street dancer and a poet form a creative connection in Boaz Yakin’s unconventional New York romance
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Reviews‘Bad Actor’: Tallinn Review
Intense Mexican drama observes what happens when an actor crosses a line during a sex scene
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Reviews‘Hiding Saddam Hussein’: IDFA Review
Iraqi farmer Alaa Namiq explains how and why he hid Saddam Hussein from US forces in 2003
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Reviews‘The World Is Family’: IDFA Review
Veteran documentarian Anand Patwardhan turns the camera on his own parents to reflect on India’s turbulent history