Latest festival reviews – Page 79
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Reviews‘Neon Spring’: Edinburgh Review
A spotlight on Riga’s rave scene through the eyes of a sheltered young girl
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Reviews‘Winners’: Edinburgh Review
Hassan Nazer crafts a passionate, meta tribute to the cinema of his native Iran
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Reviews‘A Ballad’: Sarajevo Review
A mother’s struggles to regain custody of her daughter form the core of Aida Begic’s uneven drama
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Reviews‘Whina’: Edinburgh Review
Respectful biopic relates the life and turbulent times of Maori activist Dame Whina Cooper
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Reviews‘Safe Place’: Sarajevo Review
Croatian filmmaker Juraj Lerotic makes a promising feature debut with this prize-winning exploration of brotherhood
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Reviews‘Rule 34’: Locarno Review
Locarno’s Golden Leopard winner is a sensually intimate character study tackling hot-button subject matter
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Reviews‘You Will Not Have My Hate’: Locarno Review
One family’s grief in the wake of the 2015 Bataclan attack is chronicled in this sensitive, moving drama
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Reviews‘Matter Out Of Place’: Locarno Review
Nikolaus Geyrhalter returns with a sober, engrossing study of the waste society creates
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Reviews‘Astrakan’: Locarno Review
David Depesseville’s accomplished debut follows a wayward teen navigating the world of foster care
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Reviews‘Human Flowers Of Flesh’: Locarno Review
Writer-director Helena Wittmann returns with an elliptical study of a yachting trip around the Mediterranean
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Reviews‘Fairytale’: Locarno Review
The 20th century’s most notorious leaders reunite in Alexander Sokurov’s experimental deepfake feature
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Reviews‘Medusa Deluxe’: Locarno Review
This experimental one-take drama is a darkly comic meta-whodunnit set at a hairdressing competition
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Reviews‘My Neighbor Adolf’: Locarno Review
Udo Kier steals the show in this bittersweet comedy about a Holocaust survivor and his enigmatic new neighbour
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Reviews‘Tommy Guns’: Locarno Review
Carlos Conceicao’s confident, slyly deceptive second feature looks at young soldiers during wartime
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Reviews‘LOLA’: Locarno Review
A machine is able to hear broadcasts from the future in Andrew Legge’s imaginative found-footage feature debut
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Reviews‘Paradise Highway’: Review
Juliette Binoche takes to the wheel of this US-set generic drama set in the world of women truckers
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Reviews‘The Artifice Girl’: Fantasia Review
Ambitious sci-fi exploring the evolving role of artificial intelligence in the modern world
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Reviews‘Megalomaniac’: Fantasia Review
Karim Ouelhaj draws on the unsolved case of the Butcher Of Mons for her macabre fourth feature
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Reviews‘House Of Darkness’: Fantasia Review
Neil LaBute explores the horrors of modern hook-ups in his gothic thriller
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Reviews‘Glorious’: Fantastia Review
A man meets his maker in the unlikeliest of places in Rebekah McKendry’s inventive metaphysical horror