Latest festival reviews – Page 67
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Reviews‘Shayda’: Sundance Review
In Australia, an Iranian immigrant fights for her life and her daughter in Noora Niasari’s powerful, semi-autobiographical debut
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Reviews‘Kim’s Video’: Sundance Review
’Maverick-spirited tale of movie-obsession’ starts out in a long-lost New York film institution and ends up in Sicily
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Reviews‘1946: The Mistranslation That Shifted Culture’: Review
Documentary interrogates the use of the word homosexual in the modern American Bible
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Reviews‘Hanging Gardens’: Red Sea Review
A young boy finds unlikely treasure in a Baghdad city dump in Red Sea’s Best Film prizewinner
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Reviews‘A Summer In Boujad’: Red Sea Review
A teenage boy struggles with a move from Paris to Morocco
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Reviews‘A Childless Village’: Red Sea Review
An elderly filmmaker returns to a small village to set things right in this Azerbaijan-set comedy
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Reviews‘The Last Queen’: Red Sea Review
A defiant queen takes a stand in this debut set in 1500s Algeria
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Reviews‘Our Lady Of The Chinese Shop’: Red Sea Review
Several stories intertwine in this bold debut set in Angola’s capital Luanda
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Reviews‘Raven Song’: Red Sea Review
A man with a brain tumour falls for a mystery woman in Saudi Arabia’s official Oscar submission
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Reviews‘Mountain Onion’: Red Sea Review
A young boy tries to save his parents’ marriage in this colourful debut from Kazakhstan
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Reviews‘The Gravity’: Red Sea Review
The aligning of the planets affects a housing estate turf war in this ambitious French drama
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Reviews‘Driving Mum’: Tallinn Review
Icelandic winner of Tallinn’s top prize is a road movie from beyond - or before - the grave
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Reviews‘The Wastetown’: Tallinn Review
A desperate woman searches for her missing son in Ahmad Bahrani’s follow up to Venice Horizons winner ’The Wasteland’
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Reviews‘A Cup Of Coffee And New Shoes On’: Tallinn Review
Deaf-mute identical twin brothers must cope with losing their sight in this superb Albanian drama
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Reviews‘Amar Colony’: Tallinn Review
Feature debut from India plays out inside a crumbling building in the teeming city of Shimla
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Reviews‘The Other Widow’: Tallinn Review
Tel Aviv-set debut focuses on a secret mistress whose life is silently impacted by the loss of her lover
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Reviews‘A Place Of Our Own’: Review
Indian drama from Bhopal grassroots group Ektara Collective follows two transgender women after they’re evicted from their home
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Reviews‘Parade’: Tallinn Review
A brass band leader’s life gets riotously uncomfortable in this pleasing debut from Lithuania
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Reviews‘Journey Through Our World’: IDFA Review
IDFA’s Best Dutch Documentary is an intimate portrait of the Covid-19 pandemic in which the directors turn the camera on themselves
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Reviews‘Notes On Displacement’: IDFA Review
Filmmaker Khaled Jarrar follows refugees on their arduous journey to Europe in 2015