All articles by Wendy Ide, Senior international critic – Page 5
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Reviews‘The Settlement’ review: Egyptian debut is a bleak and dispiriting revenge thriller
Mohamed Rashad’s Perspectives title has a ’grim inevitability’
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Reviews‘Dreamers’ review: Tender queer migrant drama from Britain
Nigeria-born Joy Gharoro-Akpojotor draws on her own experiences
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Reviews‘Girls On Wire’ review: Implausible action drama from China’s Vivian Qu
Berlin Competition entry can’t make up its mind whether it’s a crime thriller or a domestic drama.
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Reviews‘Hysteria’ review: Tense German satirical thriller eyes breakout status
Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay follows up his debut hit ‘Oray’
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Reviews‘The Old Woman With The Knife’ review: Bloody Korean actioner centres around an older assassin
Hyeyoung Lee’s fists of fury fuel Berlin Special Gala
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Reviews‘Shadowbox’ review: Indian debut boasts ‘storytelling of economy and elegance’
Alcoholism blights a home in the suburbs of Calcutta in this Perspectives title
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Reviews‘The Good Sister’ review: Siblings face down an accusation of rape in sharp German debut
Panorama title explores the extent of family ties
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Reviews‘Hot Milk’ review: Emma Mackey anchors uneven adaptation of Deborah Levy novel
’Sex Education’ star headlines Berlin Competition title with Vicky Krieps and Fiona Shaw
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Reviews‘Growing Down’ review: Father lies to protect his son in tense Hungarian debut
Balint Daniel Sos’s feature bows in Berlin’s Perspectives section
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Reviews‘Little Trouble Girls’ review: Erotic Slovenian debut mines fertile teenage terrain
An introverted Catholic girl’s sexual awakening is the focus of Urska Djukic’s debut
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Reviews‘Home Sweet Home’ review: Subdued Danish care worker drama stars Jette Søndergaard
Frelle Petersen’s latest plays in Berlin’s Panorama
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Reviews’Fiume O Morte!’: Rotterdam Review
Rotterdam’s Tiger winner inventively re-enacts the 1919 occupation of Fiume by Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio
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Reviews‘Raptures’: Rotterdam Review
Intense religious fervour brings fear to a 1930s Swedish village in Rotterdam’s Big Screen winner
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Reviews‘Wind, Talk To Me’: Rotterdam Review
Hybrid Serbian drama is an affecting creative meditation on grief
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Reviews‘Vitrival - The Most Beautiful Village In The World’: Rotterdam Review
Droll, dry Belgian comedy-drama tackles rising tensions in a small francophone village
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Reviews‘Perla’: Rotterdam Review
A Slovak woman’s new life in 1980s Vienna is threatened by secrets from her past
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Reviews‘Dead Lover’: Rotterdam Review
A gravedigger goes to extreme lengths to mend a broken heart in this garish Canadian horror
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Reviews‘Rains Over Babel’: Rotterdam Review
Decadent interpretation of Dante’s Inferno plays out in a pop punk Colombian nightclub
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Reviews‘Zodiac Killer Project’: Sundance Review
A failed film acts as a springboard to examine our fascination with true crime in this unconventional doc