Latest festival reviews – Page 80
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Reviews‘Country Gold’: Fantasia Review
Indie genre veteran Mickey Reece imagines a surreal meeting between country musicians
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Reviews‘Shin Ultraman’: Fantasia Review
The 1960s Japanese alien returns in a mix of high-concept action and retro effects
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Reviews‘Hypochondriac’: Fantasia Review
Addison Heimann flirts with body horror and paranoia as he explores a man losing his mind
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Reviews‘Dark Nature’: Fantasia Review
Five women find themselves facing past traumas on a weekend retreat in Berkley Brady’s solid debut
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Reviews‘Polaris’: Fantasia Review
Fantasia’s opener is a fast-paced and bloody parable set in a future suffering a permanent winter
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Reviews‘The Fifth Thoracic Vertebra’: Bifan Review
A lonely fungus seeks human contact in Park Syeyoung’s surprisingly wistful genre debut
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Reviews‘The Unstable Object II’: FIDMarseille Review
Daniel Eisenberg presents another closely-observed, absorbing portrait of three international businesses
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Reviews‘Christina’: FIDMarseille Review
Nikola Spasic builds a compelling docu-fiction around the titular Serbian transgender sex worker
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Reviews‘Lucie Loses Her Horse’: FIDMarseille Review
Claude Schmitz reworks his Covid-cancelled theatre production into a dreamlike drama about the power of performance
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Reviews‘Summer With Hope’: Karlovy Vary Review
A swimming competition is the catalyst for Iranian filmmaker Sadaf Foroughi’s well-observed Crystal Globe winner
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Reviews‘Lakelands’: Galway Review
Small town Irish drama brings a fresh feel to the familiar narrative of a young man facing an uncertain future
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Reviews‘Tarrac’: Galway Review
Decklan Recks puts some wind in the sails of the sporting underdog tale with this all-female rowing drama
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Reviews‘A Provincial Hospital’: Karlovy Vary Review
Accompished documentary looks at Covid-19 in a small town in Bulgaria
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Reviews‘The Sparrow’: Galway Review
Michael Kinirons makes a striking debut with this sensitively handled drama of a family lost in their grief
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Reviews‘Afghan Dreamers’: Galway Review
Stirring documentary about the mixed fortunes of the Afghan Girls Robotics Team
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Reviews‘Clouded Reveries’: Galway Review
Ciara Nic Chormaic presents an intimate, poetic portrait of writer Doireann Ni Ghriofa
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Reviews‘A Room Of My Own’: Karlovy Vary Review
The power of female friendship comes under the microscope in this accomplished second feature from Georgia
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Reviews‘America’: Karlovy Vary Review
Ofir Raul Grazier breathes new life into the love triangle with his follow-up to ‘The Cakemaker’
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Reviews‘Joyride’: Galway Review
Opening the Galway Fleadh, Emer Reynolds’ somewhat contrived feelgood drama stars Olivia Colman and newcomer Charlie Reid
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Reviews‘Ramona’: Karlovy Vary Review
Lourdes Hernandez is an engrossing presence in Andrea Bagney’s drama about modern millenial angst