All articles by Wendy Ide, Senior international critic – Page 15
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Reviews‘A Summer In Boujad’: Red Sea Review
A teenage boy struggles with a move from Paris to Morocco
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Reviews‘The Last Queen’: Red Sea Review
A defiant queen takes a stand in this debut set in 1500s Algeria
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Reviews‘Our Lady Of The Chinese Shop’: Red Sea Review
Several stories intertwine in this bold debut set in Angola’s capital Luanda
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Reviews‘Driving Mum’: Tallinn Review
Icelandic winner of Tallinn’s top prize is a road movie from beyond - or before - the grave
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Reviews‘The Wastetown’: Tallinn Review
A desperate woman searches for her missing son in Ahmad Bahrani’s follow up to Venice Horizons winner ’The Wasteland’
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Reviews‘A Cup Of Coffee And New Shoes On’: Tallinn Review
Deaf-mute identical twin brothers must cope with losing their sight in this superb Albanian drama
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Reviews‘The Other Widow’: Tallinn Review
Tel Aviv-set debut focuses on a secret mistress whose life is silently impacted by the loss of her lover
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Reviews‘Parade’: Tallinn Review
A brass band leader’s life gets riotously uncomfortable in this pleasing debut from Lithuania
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Reviews‘Pelican’: Tallinn Review
An injured Croatian footballer questions his entire life in this Croatian feature debut
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Reviews‘Typist Artist Pirate King’: Tallinn Review
Carol Morley presents a fictionalised portrait of little-known avant-garde schizophrenic artist Audrey Amiss
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Reviews‘Summerlight And Then Comes The Night’: Tallinn Review
Elfar Adalsteins returns home to Iceland to adapt the popular source novel by Jon Kalman
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Reviews‘Peacock Lament’: Tokyo Review
A desperate man takes a job with a Colombo-based human trafficker in Sanjeewa Pushpakumara’s fourth feature
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Reviews‘Mountain Woman’: Tokyo Review
Takeshi Fukanaga’s third feature follows a shamed woman searching for peace in 18th century Japan
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Reviews‘And So I’m At A Loss’: Tokyo Review
Daisuke Miura adapts his own stage play about a 20-something Tokyo slacker
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Reviews‘Egoist’: Tokyo Review
A successful gay man navigates a new romance in Daishi Matsunaga’s satisfying character study
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Reviews‘Glorious Ashes’: Tokyo Review
Three women eke out a life in a Vietnamese fishing village in Bui Thac Chuyen’s Tokyo competition title
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Reviews‘by the window’: Tokyo Review
A man ponders what to do about his wife’s affair in Rikiya Imaizumi’s languid drama
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Reviews‘Manticore’: Tokyo Review
The fourth film from Spain’s Carlos Vermut takes its isolated protaganist into dark territory
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Reviews‘Fragments Of The Last Will’: Tokyo Review
Takahisa Zeze’s Tokyo opener is the true story of a Japanese soldier captured in a Siberian labour camp.
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Reviews‘Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio’: London Review
The director’s first animation, a stop-motion musical for Netflix, is impressively distinctive