All articles by Jonathan Holland
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Reviews‘Three Goodbyes’ review: Alba Rohrwacher impresses at heart of Isabel Coixet’s warm drama
The Spanish director’s latest plays Tallinn after its Toronto premiere
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Reviews‘Emergency Exit’ review: Surrealist Spanish comedy is fitting swansong for star Marisa Paredes
The late Paredes is one of several passengers embarking on a magical mystery tour for director Lluis Minarro
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Reviews‘All The Time’ review: Three women are linked by shared trauma in intriguing if flawed Belgian debut
Amelie Derlon Cordina’s Brussels-set feature premieres in Seville
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Reviews‘The Bad Names’ review: Pablo Molinero shines as real Spanish intersex figure Florencio Pla
Compassionate debut from Marc Ortiz Prades is set in the early 20th century and premieres in Seville
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Reviews‘The Captive’ review: Alejandro Amenabar tackles formative years of Spanish author Cervantes
Newcomer Julio Pena Fernandez plays the Spanish writer in packed historical epic
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Reviews‘Reality Is Not Enough’ review: Entertaining portrait of Scottish writer Irvine Welsh covers familiar ground
Paul Sng’s creative, confessional documentary closes Edinburgh
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Reviews‘Novak’ review: Zlatko Buric’s convincing mad scientist elevates this offbeat Greek debut
Harry Lagoussis’s ambitious feature premieres in Edinburgh competition
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Reviews‘Little Amelie’ review: Life in 1960s Japan through the eyes of a Belgian toddler
Charming animation is based on Amelie Nothomb’s memoir ‘The Character of Rain’
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Reviews‘A Poet’ review: A failed Colombian poet mentors a promising young talent
Simon Mesa Soto’s second feature is powered by a strong performance from non-professional Ubeimar Rios
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Reviews‘Sleepless City’ review: Coming-of-age drama set in Europe’s largest shanty town in Spain
Spain’s La Cañada Real outside Madrid is ian evocative backdrop for Guillermo Galoe’s drama
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Reviews‘The Redemption’ review: Daniel Guzman, Luis Tosar star in Madrid-set social drama
Guzman directs and stars in worthy piece about a man trying to save his grandmother from eviction
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Reviews‘Olmo’ review: Fernando Eimbcke delivers Plan B’s first micro-budget feature
Warm-hearted drama from the director of ‘Duck Season’ is set in New Mexico in the 1970s
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Reviews‘Deaf’ review: A new baby poses challenges for her hearing-impaired mother in Spanish debut
Eva Libertad’s thoughtful feature stars her sister, Miram Garlo
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Reviews’The Devil Smokes’ review: Potent Mexican debut tracks five siblings over a traumatic summer
Ernesto Martínez Bucio’s film bows in Berlin’s new Perspectives section
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Reviews‘Cutting Through Rocks’: Sundance Review
One woman takes on the patriarchy in a small Iranian village
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Reviews‘Mad Bills To Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)’: Sundance Review
Bronx-set charmer about a 19 year-old Dominican boy’s impending fatherhood
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Reviews‘Dismantling An Elephant’: Seville Review
A mother’s alcoholism casts a shadow over a wealthy Barcelona family
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Reviews‘A Missing Part’: Seville Review
Romain Duris is a French father working in Tokyo who falls foul of Japanese custody laws
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Reviews‘The Antique’: Seville Review
Georgia’s Oscar submission was shot in Russia and tracks exiles in St Petersburg