All Reviews articles – Page 21
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Reviews‘Mother Mara’: Sarajevo Review
Serbia’s Mirjana Karanovic directs and stars as a woman redefining herself after the death of her only son
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Reviews‘Lollipop’: Edinburgh Review
A woman fights to regain her children in this affecting British debut drawn from personal experience
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Reviews‘The Ceremony’: Edinburgh Review
Two undocumented migrants take a strange road trip through the wilds of Yorkshire in this black-and-white British debut
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Reviews‘Smiles And Kisses You’: Edinburgh Review
Sensitive documentary explores the relationship between a North Carolina man and his AI-enhanced sex doll
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Reviews‘A Shrine’: Edinburgh Review
Mobile phone-shot drama about an Iranian ex-pat in Montreal and a dubious get-rich-quick scheme he comes to regret
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Reviews‘At The Door Of The House, Who Will Come Knocking’: Sarajevo Review
Maja Novakovic’s award-winning documentary is an enigmatic portrait of life in rural Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Reviews‘To Kill A Wolf’: Edinburgh Review
Strong debut effectively updates Little Red Riding Hood to the modern day forests of Oregon
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Reviews‘Acting’: Edinburgh Review
Documentarian Sophie Fiennes teams with theatre company Cheek By Jowl for this illuminating exploration of the acting process
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Reviews‘Dad’s Lullaby’: Sarajevo Review
The impact of the war in Ukraine is felt through the experiences of a single family in this debut documentary
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Reviews‘Xibalba Monster’: Edinburgh Review
The Mayan ruins in Yucatan are fertile ground for a young boy’s fascination with death in this Edinburgh highlight
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Reviews‘Sunlight’: Edinburgh Review
British comedian Nina Conti’s feature debut is an off-kilter road trip romance between a man and a woman dressed as a monkey
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Reviews‘Toxic’: Locarno Review
Golden Leopard-winner hones in on teenage girls and what they’ll do to get out of their dead-end town
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Reviews‘All The Mountains Give’: Edinburgh Review
Kurdish smugglers eke out an existence in the Iran/Iraq borderlands in this impressive documentary filmed over six years
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Reviews’Lilies Not For Me’: Edinburgh Review
Fionn O’Shea is a gay novelist struggling with the homophobia of 1920s England in this surprisingly staid period debut
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Reviews‘Holy Electricity’: Sarajevo Review
Colourful, uneven Georgian debut explores the city of Tbilisi through the exploits of two door-to-door salesmen
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Reviews‘Fugue’: Edinburgh Review
A man must return the body of his transgender lover to a remote Peruvian Amazon village for burial in this enigmatic Competition film
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Reviews‘Family Therapy’: Sarajevo Review
A glass house in a Slovenian forest plays host to Sonia Prosenc’s satire of the nouveau riche
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Reviews‘Alien: Romulus’: Review
Cailee Spaeny picks up the cudgel in this efficient, derivative addition to the Alien franchise
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Reviews‘A Sister’s Tale’: Locarno Review
Iranian documentarian Leila Amini follows her sister over seven years as she attempts to make it as a singer in Tehran
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Reviews‘Mexico 86’: Locarno Review
Bérénice Béjo stars as a Guatemalan activist exiled to Mexico who must rebuild her relationship with her 10-year-old son