Latest festival reviews – Page 89
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Reviews‘Sinjar’: Malaga Review
Three women deal with the fall-out of the Islamic State massacre in Anna M Bofarull’s powerful third feature
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Reviews‘The Fall’: CPH:DOX Review
An intimate coming-of-age documentary about an eleven-year-old reclaiming her body after a sleepwalking injury
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Reviews‘Unfinished Affairs’: Malaga Review
Juan Miguel del Castillo’s second feature is a Spanish thriller that critiques the male violence of its genre
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Reviews‘Beyond The Summit’: Malaga Review
Two solitary climbers help each other on the arduous slopes of Annapurna in Ibon Cormenzana’s fourth feature
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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‘Hide And Seek’: CPH:DOX Review
Victoria Fiore’s debut feature about a boy on the edge of delinquency captures the wild nature of his childhood in Naples
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Reviews‘Into The Ice’: CPH:DOX Review
CPH:DOX opens with an overwhelming experience of glaciology and climate change in Greenland
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Reviews‘The Invitation’: Thessaloniki Review
Fabrizio Maltese accepts an invitation from Abderrahmane Sissako to continue the late Pol Cruchten’s unfinished film in Mauritania
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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‘We Feed People’: SXSW Review
Ron Howard’s accessible doc on celebrity chef Jose Andres focuses on the work of his non-profit World Central Kitchen
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Reviews‘Jimmy In Saigon’: Flare Review
Searching for the truth about his brother’s mysterious death, Peter McDowell creates a compassionate picture of a hidden gay life
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Reviews‘The Other Half’: Thessaloniki Review
Photojournalist Giorgos Moutafis makes his film debut with an empathetic picture of refugees and migrants crossing European borders
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Reviews‘Arm Wrestler’: Thessaloniki Review
Yorgos Goussis expands his 2020 award-winning short into a poetic feature-length character study of his brother Panos
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Reviews‘Master Of Light’: SXSW Review
SXSW’s documentary Grand Jury award winner is a rich, complex portrait of the painter and activist George Anthony Morton
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Reviews‘Long Live My Happy Head’: Thessaloniki Review
A moving portrait of graphic novelist Gordon Shaw drawing his journey through cerebral cancer when the global pandemic hits
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Reviews‘I Love My Dad’: SXSW Review
SXSW-winner takes cringe comedy to the next level when a hapless father catfishes his own son
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Reviews‘This Is Not Me’: Flare Review
A moving portrait of two young trans men embarking upon the difficult legal process of gender transition in Iran
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Reviews‘Off the Rails’: Thessaloniki Review
Peter Day expands his BBC documentary short into a feature length focus on the British urban parkour collective Brewman