All articles by Jonathan Holland – Page 3
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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‘Sister & Sister’: Malaga Review
Teenage sisters try to track down their father in this charming debut from Panama
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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
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Reviews‘Killing Crabs’: Malaga Review
A pre-tourist Tenerife comes back to life in this appealing 1990s period drama
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Reviews‘Sica’: Malaga Review
A young girl searches for her missing father in this impressive debut set on the stormy Galician coast
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Reviews‘The Enchanted’: Malaga Review
Laia Costa shines in this otherwise lacklustre drama set in the Spanish Pyrenees
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Reviews‘The Castle’: Berlin Review
A neglected castle in the Argentinian pampas is the setting for Martin Benchimol’s eccentric documentary
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Reviews‘Matria’: Berlin Review
Maria Vazquez plays a single mother in Galicia whose life is constantly on the edge of falling apart
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Reviews‘The Eternal Memory’: Sundance Review
Maite Alberdi follows up ‘The Mole Agent’ with this deeply moving story of a couple coping with Alzheimer’s disease
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Reviews‘La Mala Familia’: Rotterdam Review
Intense drama about group of immigrants in Madrid which blurs the line between fiction and reality
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Reviews‘Sorcery’: Sundance Review
A young girl attempts to avenge her father’s death in this Chilean drama based on real events
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Reviews‘Mamacruz’: Sundance Review
Spanish comedy/drama features veteran Kiti Manver as a middle-aged woman exploring her sexuality
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Reviews‘21 Paraiso’: Seville Review
Spanish debut at Seville and Tallinn explores what happens when life in ‘paradise’ goes wrong
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Reviews‘Siete Jereles’: Seville Review
An exploration of the flamenco traditions of the Spanish city of Jerez
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Reviews‘Matadero’: Seville Review
Santiago Fillol’s directorial debut works an old Argentinian prose text into a potent modern film
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Reviews‘Walls Can Talk’: Seville Review
Spanish veteran Carlos Saura looks back to the origins of art
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Reviews‘Stories Not To Be Told’: San Sebastian Review
Cesc Gay hits his comfort zone and parks there for this half-throttle film of five stories
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Reviews‘Trenque Lauquen’: San Sebastian Review
Laura Citarella’s two linked features search for a missing woman in the pampa who might not want to be found
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Reviews‘The Kings Of The World’: San Sebastian Review
Laura Mora’s second feature follows five street kids from Medellin into the Colombian countyside as they try to claim what is theirs
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Reviews‘The Rite Of Spring’: San Sebastian Review
Spain’s Fernando Franco explores the unconventional relationship between an insecure woman and a man with cerebal palsy