All articles by Wendy Ide, Senior international critic – Page 4
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Reviews‘My Father’s Shadow’ review: Sope Dirisu stars in this electric debut set in 1990s Nigeria
The semi-autobiographical first feature from Akinola Davies Jr premieres in Un Certain Regard
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Reviews‘No One Will Know’ review: A Parisian bar plays host to a looping crime thriller
Vincent Maël Cardona’s follow-up to ’Magnetic Beasts’ plays as a Cannes Midnight screening
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Reviews‘Renoir’ review: A grieving 11-year-old retreats into fantasy in 1980s Tokyo
Chie Hayakawa’s elegant second feature plays Cannes Competition
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Reviews‘Mirrors No. 3’ review: Rich study of trauma and grief unfolds in the German countryside
Christian Petzold’s fourth collaboration with actor Paula Beer is small but mighty
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Reviews‘Urchin’ review: Harris Dickinson directs an elevated study of addiction
British actor-turned-filmmaker bows in Un Certain Regard
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Reviews‘The Little Sister’ review: Hafsia Herzi explores identity and faith in coming-of-age story
The film adaptation of the award-winning novel The Last One premieres in Cannes’s Main Competition
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Reviews‘A Pale View Of Hills’ review: Kazuo Ishiguro’s debut novel gets tangled between Japan and the UK
Kei Ishikawa directs a dual timeline between 1950s Japan and 1980s England
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Reviews‘Sound Of Falling’ review: Trauma seeps through a century of women’s lives in rural Germany
Mascha Schilinski’s Cannes Competition title is ‘a work of thrilling ambition’
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Reviews‘Leave One Day’ review: Cannes opens with crowd-pleasing musical of ‘exceptionally Gallic’ flavour
Amelie Bonnin’s culinary-infused film marks the first debut ever to launch the festival
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Reviews‘Always’ review: CPH: DOX winner is a poetic meditation on growing up in rural China
Denming Chen’s striking second feature takes the top prize at Danish doc fest
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Reviews‘The Golden Spurtle’ review: Nourishing doc on a Scottish porridge-making championship
Constantine Costi’s delightful portrait of a highland tradition bows in CPH:DOX
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Reviews‘The Helsinki Effect’ review: Timely doc revisits pivotal East/West summit
CPH:DOX title is a lively exploration of the 1975 Helsinki conference that aimed to end the Cold War
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Reviews‘Lowland Kids’ review: America’s first climate refugees prepare to leave their Louisiana home
Darren Aronofsky produces this ’extremely accomplished’ CPH:DOX debut
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Reviews‘Sanatorium’ review: Striking portrait of Odesa’s Soviet-era health facility
Documentary from Irish director Gar O’Rourke debuts at CPH:DOX
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Reviews‘Forever We Are Young’ review: Illuminating portrait of the superfans behind K-Pop phenomenon BTS
Grace Lee and Patty Ahn’s documentary focuses on the band’s dedicated ARMY fanbase
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Reviews‘Animality’ review: Ai Weiwei explores our often shocking relationship with animals
The filmmaker’s unflinching work bows at CPH:DOX
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Reviews‘Everest Dark’ review: A Sherpa’s last summit to bring back the dead
Doc follows a retired guide’s attempts to atone to the mountain goddess
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Reviews‘The Safe House’ review: Cluttered 1960s Paris-set chamber piece
Lionel Baier makes his first appearance in Berlin competition
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Reviews‘Timestamp’ review: Doc is a powerful, fractured portrait of school days in Ukraine
Kateryna Gornostai returns to Berlin with this Competition title
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Reviews‘Two Times João Liberada’ review: Portuguese LGBTQ+ title is a niche debut
Paula Tomás Marques uses a fictional history to shed light on modern filmmaking conventions