Latest festival reviews – Page 92
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Reviews‘Father’s Day’: Berlin Review
Three intersecting family stories reveal the lasting trauma of Rwanda’s violent history
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Reviews‘Small, Slow But Steady’: Berlin Review
Sombre, sensitive portrait of a young professional female boxer in Japan
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Reviews‘The Forger’: Berlin Review
Louis Hofmann leads an engaging drama based on Holocaust memoir set in wartime Berlin
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Reviews‘The Passengers Of The Night’: Berlin
Charlotte Gainsbourg leads Mikhaël Hers’ gentle, optimistic drama set in 1980s Paris
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Reviews‘Taurus’: Berlin Review
Machine Gun Kelly conjures up this cliche’d tale of an addled rock star for director Tim Sutton
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Reviews‘AEIOU - A Quick Alphabet Of Love’: Berlin Review
Sophie Rois stars in Nicolette Krebitz’s whimsical romantic drama championing female desire
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Reviews‘1341 Frames of Love and War’: Berlin Review
Israeli documentarian Ran Tal brings war photographer Micha Bar-Am’s work into focus
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Reviews‘Brother In Every Inch’: Berlin Review
Alexander Zolotukhin’s second feature, centred around twin Russian military pilot cadets, is an impressive visual feat
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Reviews‘Sonne’: Berlin Review
Ulrich Seidl-produced drama shows how social media comes to dominate the life of a young Kurdish girl living in Vienna
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Reviews‘Return To Dust’: Berlin Review
Anchored by an authentic relationship Li Ruijun’s portrait of provincial China is his most moving yet
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Reviews‘Both Sides Of The Blade’: Berlin Review
Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon are at the top of their game in Claire Denis’ love triangle drama
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Reviews‘Northern Skies Over Empty Space’: Berlin Review
Alejandra Marquez Abella’s third feature is a powerful blend of class drama and classic Western, set on a Mexican ranch
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Reviews‘Rabiye Kurnaz Vs George W. Bush’: Berlin Review
Well-intentioned German drama plays up the humour in this true-life fight for justice story
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Reviews‘Coma’: Berlin Review
Bertrand Bonello stitches together an experimental ‘gesture’ to his daughter
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Reviews‘Dreaming Walls’: Berlin Review
Counter-culture is alive in new documentary on the changing tides at New York’s iconic Chelsea Hotel
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Reviews‘Nana: Before, Now & Then’: Berlin Review
Kamila Andini’s fourth feature is a melancholy drama set during the Indonesian communist purge of the 1960s
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Reviews‘This Much I Know To Be True’: Berlin Review
Back to stripped-down basics with Nick Cave and his long-term visual collaborator Andrew Dominik
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Reviews‘Everything Will Be OK’: Berlin Review
Rithy Panh’s iconic figurines imagine an overthrow of the human race with little hope for the future
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Reviews‘Rimini’: Berlin Review
Ulrich Seidl’s return to drama is characteristically bleak as he visits an ageing cabaret singer in Fellini’s famous home town
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Reviews‘Flux Gourmet’: Berlin Review
Peter Strickland’s new absurdist drama of sonic caterers in artistic residence is his funniest yet