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All articles by Lee Marshall
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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‘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‘Where To?’ review: A Palestinian cab driver in Berlin connects with his Israeli passenger in delicate, resonant debut
Berlin Perspectives title from Israeli filmmaker Assaf Machnes features strong performances from Ehab Salami and Ido Tako
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Reviews‘Filipiñana’ review: A wealthy Manila country club plays host to this poised, potent study of power and corruption
Filipino director Rafael Manue’s enigmatic debut is executive-produced by Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhiangke
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Reviews‘At The Sea’ review: Amy Adams leads Kornel Mundruczo’s uneven follow-up to ‘Pieces Of A Woman’
Addiction recovery drama also stars Dan Levy, Chloe East and Rainn Wilson, and debuts in Berlin Competition
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Reviews‘Wax & Gold’ review: Ruth Beckermann explores Addis Ababa’s Hilton Hotel as a microcosm for modern Ethiopia
The Austrian filmmaker’s follow-up to ‘Favoriten’ premieres as a Berlin Special Screening
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Reviews‘Animol’ review: Ashley Walters’ directorial debut burns with raw, claustrophobic intensity
Tut Nyout leads a gritty youth-detention drama with support from Stephen Graham
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Reviews‘Rosebush Pruning’ review: Callum Turner, Elle Fanning and Riley Keogh head stylish, soulless Karim Aïnouz drama
The English-language Berlin Competition title also stars Jamie Bell, Lukas Gage, Tracy Letts and Pamela Anderson
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Reviews‘Everybody Digs Bill Evans’ review: Anders Danielsen Lie is phenomenal as the iconic American jazz musician
British documentarian Grant Gee’s absorbing fiction feature debut bows in Berlin competition
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Reviews‘Trial Of Hein’ review: Assured, enigmatic German debut blends rural unease and social allegory
Kai Stänicke’s impressive blend of period drama and folk horror bows in Berlin’s Perspectives strand
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Reviews‘No Good Men’ review: Berlin opener is breezy if somewhat conventional Afghan rom-com
Writer/director Shahrbanoo Sadat also stars in this Kabul-set romance
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Reviews‘La Belle Année’ review: Delicate documentary follows a Swedish-French woman revisiting her past
Filmmaker Angelica Ruffier’s personal debut won Rotterdam’s Special Jury Prize
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Reviews‘Master’ review: An idealistic politician is corrupted in assured, slow-burn Bangladeshi drama
Rezwan Shahriar Sumit’s second feature was named Rotterdam’s Big Screen competition winner
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Reviews‘Variations On A Theme’ review: Rotterdam Tiger winner is intimate South African doc-fiction
Jason Jacobs and Devon Delmar follow ’Carissa’ with community drama set in the country’s Kamiesberge region
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Reviews‘Moonglow’ review: Isabel Sandoval directs and stars in underpowered Filipino neo-noir
Police corruption procedural bows in Rotterdam’s Big Screen Competition
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Reviews‘Supporting Role’ review: Georgian star Dato Bakhtadze anchors fluid, tragi-comic Tbilisi-set drama
Ana Urushadze’s follow-up to ’Scary Mother’ debuts in Rotterdam’s Tiger competition
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Reviews‘Projecto Global’ review: Dynamic Portuguese drama stars an impressive Jani Zhao as real-life 1980s rebel
Ivo M Ferriera’s knowing, nostalgic feature bows in Rotterdam’s Big Screen Competition
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Reviews‘Butterfly’ review: Renate Reinsve crackles in intriguing but tonally frustrating Gran-Canaria set drama
The Rotterdam Big Screen competition title reunites Reinsve with her ‘The Worst Person In The World’ co-star Helen Bjornesby
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Reviews‘Providence And The Guitar’ review: Rotterdam opener is quirky, stretched Portuguese comedy
Joao Nicolau’s fourth feature is based on a work by Robert Louis Stevenson
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FeaturesFilms of the year 2025: Lee Marshall
Lee Marshall joined Screen in 1996 as an Italy-based film critic. He also writes on travel, design and culture for a range of UK, US and Italian publications.