Latest festival reviews – Page 97
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Reviews‘The Sea Ahead’: Red Sea Review
Ely Dagher’s striking first feature is a poetic look at a woman who returns home, finding a city she no longer recognises
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Reviews‘Abu Saddam’: Cairo Review
A veteran trucker and his assistant deliver a powerful portrayal of toxic masculinity for Egyptian director and co-writer Nadine Khan
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Reviews‘Becoming’: Cairo/Red Sea Review
All-female anthology takes a sparky driver’s seat approach to life in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Reviews‘The Stranger’: Cairo Review
Palestine’s submission to the international Oscar category is set in the disputed Golan Heights
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Reviews‘107 Mothers’: Cairo Review
Inside a women’s prison in Ukraine, incarcerated mothers are forced to hand their children over for adoption
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Reviews‘Dear Thomas’: Tallinn Review
Black and white portrait of the East German man of letters Thomas Brasch wins the top prize at the Black Nights Film Festival
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Reviews‘Cadejo Blanco’: Tallinn Review
In Guatemala, a young woman goes in desperate search of her sister in Justin Lerner’s nailbiting drama
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Reviews‘Eskape’: IDFA Review
Neary Adeline Hay retraces the steps she took as a child refugee feeling post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia
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Reviews‘Mafifa’: IDFA Review
Daniela Muñoz Barroso presents a dynamic portrait of late Cuban congan musician Mafifa
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Reviews‘A Thousand Fires’: IDFA Review
In Myanmar, a couplle drill for oil by hand and hope for better days in Saeed Farouky’s award-winning documentary
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Reviews‘After A Revolution’: IDFA Review
Two siblings on opposing sides of the Libyan civil war cope with its aftermath in different ways
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Reviews‘Housewitz’: IDFA Review
Intimate portrait of prison camp survivor Lous Hoogendijk-De Jong, who hasn’t left her home in years
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Reviews‘Immersion’: Tallinn Review
A family sailing trip takes a turn into stormy waters in Nicolas Postiglione’s Chilean drama
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Reviews‘Turn Your Body To The Sun’: IDFA Review
A woman attempts to retrace the steps of her Soviet soldier father who was captured by the Nazis
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Reviews‘Eat Your Catfish’: IDFA Review
Inside the life of Kathryn, locked into a fixed position due to ALS but never static
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Reviews‘No Looking Back’: Tallinn Review
Families at war fuel Kirill Sokolov’s bloody follow-up to Why Don’t You Just Die?
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Reviews‘Other Cannibals’: Tallinn Review
Two troubled men forge an unlikely friendship in Francesco Sossai’s dark Italian comedy
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Reviews‘The Score’: Tallinn Review
Malachi Smyth’s musical heist movie proves to be an unusual debut
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Reviews‘Children Of The Mist’: IDFA Review
A young Hmong girl in Northern Vietnam struggles against a pre-ordained path in Diam Ha Lei’s compelling first feature
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Reviews‘Journey To The Sun’: IDFA Review
Children are sent from a war-torn Austria to Portugal for sustenance in Susana de Sousa Dias’s immersive documentary