All articles by Jonathan Holland – Page 5
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Reviews‘What Lucia Saw’: Malaga Review
Imanol Uribe grapples with the injustice of the famous 1989 murders of Jesuits in El Salvador in this familiar morality tale
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Reviews‘The Gigantes’: Malaga Review
Beatriz Sanchis’ second feature follows two female runaways escaping their troubles in LA for the Mexican border
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Reviews‘Code Emperor’: Malaga Review
Malaga opens with Jorge Coira’s high-speed thriller starring Luis Tosar
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Reviews‘Lullaby’: Malaga Review
Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s debut is an absorbing mother-daughter drama set on the Basque coast
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Reviews‘One Year, One Night’: Berlin Review
Powerful dramatisation of a couple’s survival of the Bataclan terrorist attack in Paris
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Reviews‘Robe Of Gems’: Berlin Review
Natalia López Gallardo makes waves with her disquieting debut set in rural Mexico
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Reviews‘The Cow Who Sang A Song Into The Future’: Sundance Review
Ambitious magical-realist tale from Chile about motherhood and the natural world
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Reviews‘My Emptiness and I’: Rotterdam Review
A trans woman defines herself in this standout Spanish feature debut
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Reviews‘Piggy’: Sundance Review
Spanish filmmaker expands her short film into a bold, bloody and insightful feature
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Reviews‘Love Gets A Room’: Review
Rodrigo Cortes triumphant play-within-a-film is set in real-time in the Warsaw ghetto of 1942
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Reviews‘Plaza Catedral’: Review
Abner Benaim’s second feature explores the relationship between a melancholy divorcee and a poor street child
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Reviews‘A Vanishing Fog’: Tallinn Review
Colombia’s ancient mountains are the setting for Augusto Sandino’s surrealist family drama
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Reviews‘A Place Called Dignity’: Tallinn Review
Matias Rojas Valencia explores the horrors of Chile’s Colonia Dignidad
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Reviews’Bebia, a mon seul desir’: Thessaloniki Review
A young Georgian model living in London returns home when her formidable grandmother dies
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Reviews‘Veneciafrenia’: Tokyo Review
Venice tourists are being killed by a masked stranger in Alex de la Iglesia’s bloody thriller
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Reviews‘The Tale Of King Crab’: Doclisboa Review
This atmospheric drama encompasses everything from thwarted love affairs to quixotic treasure hunts
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Reviews‘Unwanted’: San Sebastian Review
Russian drama is a challenging winner of the New Directors award at Spain’s premier festival
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Reviews‘Jesus Lopez’: San Sebastian Review
Maximiliano Schonfeld infuses this tale of a grieving Argentinian community with well-handled fantasy elements
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Reviews‘The Daughter’: San Sebastian Review
A teen pregnancy is the catalyst for disturbing events in Manuel Martin Cuenca’s suspenseful drama
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Reviews‘The Good Boss’: San Sebastian Review
It’s Javier Bardem’s show as he runites with Fernando Leon de Aranoa for this parable of power in a provincial Spanish town