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‘Casa Susanna’: Venice Review 2x3dg
Sebastien Lifshitz’s moving documentary pay tribute to a 1960s getaway for transgender women and cross-dressers
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‘The Night Belongs To Lovers’: Transilvania Review 4v5b59
A one night stand is at the heart of Julien Hilmoine’s likeable, if light, emotional drama
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‘Gentle’: Transilvania Review 1uh1c
A female bodybuilder finds her inner strength in this immersive drama
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‘January’: Tribeca Review 182n1w
Viesturs Kairiss paints a rather sombre picture of adolescence in the political turbulence of early-90s Latvia
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Reviews‘The Strange Case of Jacky Caillou’: Cannes Review 336w4v
Lucas Delangle’s offbeat debut concerns a young man torn between mysticism and music
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Reviews‘Magdala’: Cannes Review 6t4166
Damien Manivel creates a gentle, unhurried portrait of Mary Magdalene in this melancholy autumnal tale
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‘Sick Of Myself’: Cannes Review g6r5s
A toxic relationship gone nuclear is at the heart of Kristoffer Borgli’s dark comedy
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‘Under The Fig Trees’: Cannes Review s2au
Erige Sehiri makes her fiction debut with this gentle human drama set in a Tunisian orchard
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Reviews‘99 Moons’: Cannes Review 53mi
A frank, erotically charged portait of two lovers plays out in Cannes’ ACID programme
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‘All Of Our Heartbeats Are Connected Through Exploding Stars’: Visions du Reel Review 734e1g
Jennifer Rainsford’s debut feature doc traces connections made by people grieving loved ones lost in Japan’s 2011 tsunami
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Reviews‘5 Dreamers And A Horse’: Visions du Reel Review 26q6h
In Armenia, four subjects search for their place in society through a series of quirky vignettes
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‘A House Made Of Splinters’: Thessaloniki Review 125k5b
In pre-war Ukraine, an orphanage for temporary placements tries to deal with the psychological wounds of conflict
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‘Angry Young Men’: Glasgow Review e173g
Paul Morris’s one-man microbudget movie explores childhood rivalries set on a fictional housing estate in Scotland
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‘Adult Adoption’: Glasgow Review 2e6m6w
Actor and playright Ellie Moon wrote and stars in this quirky comedy drama about a care leaver seeking adult adoption
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‘Echo’: Berlin Review u3r20
Mareike Wegener’s fiction feature debut is a crime mystery with echoes of philosophical trauma
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‘Dreaming Walls’: Berlin Review 6f2q4a
Counter-culture is alive in new documentary on the changing tides at New York’s iconic Chelsea Hotel
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‘Brian And Charles’: Sundance Review e34d
British director Jim Archer extends his award-winning short into a warm-hearted comedy
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‘Girl Picture’: Sundance Review b1a26
A trio of Finnish women search for satisfaction in Alli Haapasalo’s second solo film
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‘Recovery’: Red Sea Review 4z769
Rashid Masharawi traces the history of Jaffa in this inventive, personal documentary
