Latest festival reviews – Page 138
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‘The Self Portrait’: Thessaloniki Review
A powerful documentary about Norwegian photographer Lene Marie Fossen and her lifelong struggle with anorexia
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‘Sundays’: Thessaloniki Review
A filmmaker tries to understand what prompted her seemingly perfect father to leave the priesthood
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‘The Marriage Project’: Thessaloniki Review
A bold social experiment inside a mental institution has mixed results in this slim documentary from Iran
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‘The Prophet And The Space Aliens’: Thessaloniki Review
Yoav Shamir delivers a thoughtful documentary about a guru who believes in UFOs
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‘The Metamorphosis Of Birds’: Thessaloniki Review
A bold, inventive family saga told through a poetic documentary essay
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‘Punta Sacra’: Visions du Réel Review
An ‘Italian favela’ south of Rome is the setting for Francesca Mazzoleni’s poignant documentary
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‘The Pageant’: Visions du Réel Review
Behind the scenes of the annual ‘Miss Holocaust Survivor’ competition in Haifa, Israel
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‘Mirror, Mirror, On The Wall’: Visions du Réel Review
Welcome to Dr Han’s strange world of live-streamed cosmetic surgery
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‘El Father Plays Himself’: Visions du Réel Review
Documentary tracks the Amazon shoot of ‘La Forteleza’, bringing to mind Kinski and Herzog’s adventures of yore
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‘Nemesis’: Visions du Réel Review
A solitary, fixed camera captures a Zurich in constant transition over seven years - for better and for worse.
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‘Outcry And Whisper’: Visions du Réel Review
Documentary focuses on female voices raised in protest in Hong Kong and China
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‘A Machine To Live In’: Visions du Réel Review
Brasilia, through the highly-subjective lens of Yoni Goldstein and Meredith Zielke
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‘Amor Fati’: Visions du Réel Review
A cinematic essay looks at the concept of soulmates – two sides of the same coin
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‘Non Western’: Visions du Réel Review
A fascinating and unexpected clash of cultures besets a complicated Lakota marriage
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‘Anerca, Breath Of Life’: Visions du Réel Review
The indigenous peoples of the Arctic Circle are united in this soulful documentary
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‘Sapelo’: Visions du Réel Review
An island on America’s Atlantic Coast is the setting for Nick Brandestini’s involving documentary
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‘Trolls World Tour’: Review
’The cinematic equivalent of a pound of glitter being shot right in your face’