All articles by Lee Marshall – Page 2
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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.
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Reviews‘Black Rabbit, White Rabbit’ review: Audacious, ambitious Tajiki time-loop drama unfolds in film studio
Chosen as Tajikistan’s official Oscar submission, Shahram Mokri’s feature now plays Red Sea Competition
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Reviews‘Past Future Continuous’ review: IDFA Envision winner is poignant, formally daring family portrait
Directors Firouzeh Khosrovani and Morteza Ahmadvand explore the link between a US-based woman and her parents in Tehran
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Reviews‘A Fox Under A Pink Moon’ review: Strong Afghan migrant doc blends phone footage and animation
Iranian filmmaker Mehrdad Oskouei’s IDFA competition title follows a young Afghan artist attempting to journey to Europe
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Reviews‘Silent Flood’ review: Lyrical portrait of a religious community in Ukraine is new angle on conflict
Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk’s thoughtful docmentary plays IDFA competition
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Reviews‘Amilcar’ review: Impressionistic study of Guinea-Bissau-born poet and revolutionary Amilcar Cabral
IDFA premiere uses archive footage and Cabral’s personal writings to paint a compelling portrait
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Reviews‘Gaza’s Twins, Come Back To Me’ review: Impassioned doc follows a family trying to reunite in Gaza
Mohammed Sawwaf’s emotional second feature premieres at IDFA
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Reviews‘The Prince Of Nanawa’ review: Rich, rewarding doc follows a Paraguayan boy from adolescence to adulthood
Clarisa Navas’s fascinating feature plays IDFA following its Visions du Reel Grand Jury prize win
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Reviews‘Steal This Story, Please!’ review: Energetic doc follows dogged US journalist Amy Goodman
Feature from ’Trouble The Water’ filmmakers Carl Deal and Tia Lessin makes its international bow at IDFA
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Reviews‘Active Vocabulary’ review: Intimate, experimental doc explores indoctrination of Russian school children
Yulia Lokshina’s insightful film centres on an exiled Russian teacher working in Berlin
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Reviews‘Palestine 36’ review: Palestine’s Oscar entry is stirring historical drama from Annemarie Jacir
Jacir’s lavish period epic is set against the background of Palestine’s 1936 Arab Revolt against British rule