All articles by Amber Wilkinson – Page 3 4n1u6k

  • Girls State
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    ‘Girls State’: Sundance Review 6a5e6p

    2024-01-19T08:20:00Z 74b5a

    Follow up to ‘Boys State’ is an insightful documentary about everday sexism and young women’s fight for change

  • Freaky Tales
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    ‘Freaky Tales’: Sundance Review 536m6g

    2024-01-19T07:27:00Z

    Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden return to their indie roots with this anarchic quartet of stories set in California, 1987

  • Frida
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    ‘Frida’: Sundance Review y1x5u

    2024-01-19T00:30:00Z

    Vibrant documentary portrait of Frida Kahlo uses the artist’s own words to tell her story

  • Traces
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    ‘Traces’: Review 6v2h55

    2023-12-04T08:00:00Z

    Croatia’s Oscar submission is a subtle meditation on past influences in the life of an anthropologist

  • Wakhri
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    ‘Wakhri’: Red Sea Review 6e6u16

    2023-12-03T09:00:00Z

    Well-intentioned drama takes inspiration from a real-life Pakistani honour killing

  • Touched
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    ‘Touched’: Thessaloniki Review 21132k

    2023-11-11T09:00:00Z

    A paralysed man embarks on a clandestine relationship with his care assistant in this frank German drama

  • Guest Star
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    ‘Guest Star’: Thessaloniki Review 2j5cn

    2023-11-11T08:30:00Z

    Vasilis Christofilakis writes, directs and stars in this Greek celebrity satire

  • Cafe
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    ‘Cafe’: Thessaloniki Review 1s1831

    2023-11-10T15:40:00Z

    Jailed Iranian filmmaker Navid Mihanoust presents an self-referential tale of a director living in limbo while waiting for a prison sentence 

  • We Have Never Been Modern
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    ‘We Have Never Been Modern’: Thessaloniki Review 3h5g2d

    2023-11-10T09:00:00Z

    Period Czech drama set at the dawn of the Second World War has a decidedly modern sensibility

  • Murderess
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    ‘Murderess’: Thessaloniki Review 5m7172

    2023-11-09T18:37:00Z

    Unrelentingly brutal period drama about an ageing midwife who battles the patriarchy in a remote Greek village

  • Melk
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    ‘Melk’: Thessaloniki Review e5t5q

    2023-11-08T09:00:00Z

    A grieving mother must find a way to come to with her loss in this quiet Dutch debut

  • The Last Taxi Driver
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    ‘The Last Taxi Driver’: Thessaloniki Review 13z1d

    2023-11-06T13:20:00Z

    A taxi driver is pulled into a dangerous obsession in this intense Greek drama

  • Without Air
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    ‘Without Air’: Thessaloniki Review 2y3y69

    2023-11-02T09:00:00Z

    Debut feature explores Hungarian conservatism through the microcosm of a high school scandal

  • Heritage
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    ‘Heritage’: Busan Review 26yo

    2023-10-08T05:11:00Z

    Three lives intersect in a welfare office in Korea in Lee Jong-su’s droll, dry debut

  • Oasis Of Now
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    ‘Oasis Of Now’: Busan Review 2f18g

    2023-10-06T01:30:00Z

    An undocumented Vietnamese woman lives life on the margins in Malaysia in Chia Chee Sum’s debut

  • The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
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    ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde’: Edinburgh Review 5w6g62

    2023-08-21T17:00:00Z

    Hope Dickson Leach’s inventive hybrid production moves the gothic novel to Edinburgh with the National Theatre of Scotland 

  • Silent Roar
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    ‘Silent Roar’: Edinburgh Review m5n4b

    2023-08-19T09:32:00Z

     Edinburgh’s opening film is set on a beautifully-shot Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides

  • Stay Online
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    ‘Stay Online’: Fantasia Review 6c306

    2023-07-23T00:01:00Z

    This ’screenlife’ thriller was shot in Ukraine against the backdrop of the current Russian invasion

  • Mami Wata
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    ‘Mami Wata’: Fantasia Review 2y6r4s

    2023-07-21T12:41:00Z

    A West African village finds itself at a spiritual crossroads in CJ ‘Fiery’ Obasi’s striking third feature

  • Blaga's Lessons
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    ‘Blaga’s Lessons’: Karlovy Vary Review s4746

    2023-07-12T14:05:00Z

    Karlovy Vary’s Crystal Globe winner is a tense thriller about an elderly Bulgarian woman who falls for a telephone scam