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Reviews‘Bucks Harbor’ review: Delicately-woven tapestry of life in rugged New England fishing community
Photojournalist-turned-filmmaker Pete Muller’s documentary plays True/False Film Fest following Berlin premiere
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Reviews‘Hoppers’ review: Pixar bounces back with charmingly oddball family animation
A teenager goes to extreme lengths to save an endangered glade in Daniel Chong’s warm-hearted environmental comedy
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Reviews‘500 Miles’ review: Bill Nighy and Maisie Williams star in mawkish Irish drama
Overly-sentimental adaptation of Mark Lowery novel premieres at Dublin
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Reviews‘Molly Vs The Machines’ review: Emotional docu-drama explores the insidious threat posed by social media
Marc Silver’s film premieres at Glasgow before a UK theatrical run and broadcast on Channel 4
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Reviews‘Sad Girlz’ review: Two Mexico City teens cope with the fallout from sexual violence in sensitive, authentic debut
Fernanda Tovar’s assured friendship drama won Berlin’s Generation 14Plus strand
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Reviews‘Scream 7’ review: Returning star Neve Campbell fails to reinvigorate blunt horror franchise
Courteney Cox also makes an appearance in first ’Scream’ film to be directed by original writer Kevin Williamson
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Reviews‘Ivan & Hadoum’ review: Low-key Spanish LGBTQ+ debut explores issues of class and identity
Ian de la Rosa’s accomplished film premiered in Berlin’s Panorama, where it won the Teddy award for Best Feature
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Reviews‘Forever Is Now’ review: Immersive, balanced portrait of Ireland Green Party leader Eamon Ryan
Neasa Ni Chianain’s fly-on-the-wall documentary follows 18 months in Ryan’s professional and personal life
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Reviews‘Samanta Nobody’ review: A homeless girl struggles to make her way in muted Irish drama
Ciaran Creagh’s Dublin title stars newcomer Ruby Jean Lennon as the down-on-her-luck protagonist
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Reviews‘Yo (Love Is A Rebellious Bird)’ review: Joyful, creative documentary portrait of grief, love and friendship
Anna Fitch pays tribute to her late friend Yolanda Shea in this celebratory Berlin Competition title
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Reviews‘Once Upon A Time In A Cinema’ review: Dublin opener is nostalgic drama set in 1980s Limerick
David Gleeson bases his feature on his own experiences growing up in a family of Irish cinema owners
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Reviews‘A Child Of My Own’ review: Intriguing Maite Alberdi Netflix doc on Mexican fake pregnancy case
The Berlinale Special screening follows ‘The Mole Agent’ and ‘Eternal Memory’
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Reviews‘Soumsoum, The Night Of The Stars’ review: Gentle magical-realist fable follows a spiritual connection in rural Chad
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun’s follow-up to Lingui, The Sacred Bonds is a less propulsive, more pensive work
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Reviews‘Lali’ review: First all-Pakistani film to play Berlin is heady, tonally disjointed comedy thriller
Sarmad Sultan Khoosat’s Berlin Panorama title is unafraid of defying genre convention
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Reviews‘The Loneliest Man In Town’ review: Viennese musician Al Cook stars in slow, meditative drama
Berlin Competition title will most appeal to Cook’s existing fans
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Reviews‘Sleep No More’ review: A decaying Indonesian wig factory hides a dark secret in Edwin’s outré horror
The filmmaker’s follow-up to Locarno winner ’Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash’ bows as a Berlin Special Screening
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Reviews‘The Garden We Dreamed’ review: Mexican migrant drama puts lyrical, affecting spin on a well-worn genre
Joaquin del Paso’s third film stars Nehemie Bastien and Faustin Pierre as a couple attempting to make a forest home
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Reviews‘The Day She Returns’ review: Hong Sangsoo’s slight, ponderous character study stars Song Sunmi
Sunmi’s expressive performance lifts the director’s slow-burning Berlin Panorama title
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Reviews‘Wolfram’ review: Warwick Thornton’s period Outback thriller is visually stunning, narratively flat
The acclaimed director’s Berlin Competition title is a sequel-of-sorts to 2017’s ’Sweet Country’
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Reviews‘Roya’ review: An imprisoned Iranian teacher struggles to hold herself together in vivid, challenging political drama
Mahnaz Mohammadi’s follow-up to ’Son-Mother’ features an expressive performance from Melisa Sözen