Category: Festivals
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East End Film Festival: Leones
“I didn’t know it was a devil town. oh lord it really brings me down.”…
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Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival 2013: Taboor
With a distinctive opening and an almost transcendent closing shot, Iranian writer-director Vahid Vakilifar’s second…
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Sheffield Doc/Fest Twenty Report
Sheffield Doc/Fest becomes bigger and more successful by the year. Its twentieth ran from 12-16…
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Sheffield Doc/Fest Twenty – Not Criminally Responsible Review
John Kastner’s documentary explores the tentative relationship between mental illness and seriously violent crimes, and…
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Cannes 2013: The Immigrant Review
Turning to the world of period dramas, James Gray crafts a story of longing, loss,…
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East End Film Festival: After Tiller
Martha Lane and Lana Wilson’s documentary After Tiller focuses entirely on third-trimester abortions, those undertaken…
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Sheffield Doc/Fest Twenty – Smash and Grab: The Story of the Pink Panthers
A fascinating and innovative documentary that sashays across Europe and beyond, from war-torn Yugoslavia to…
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Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival 2013: The Deep
“Of course, I’m nothing but a drop in the ocean,” says Gudlaugur Fridthórsson, the real-life…
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Edinburgh Int’l Film Festival 2013: When Night Falls
That Shanghai-born writer-director Liang Ying’s fourth feature in six years has proved to be such…
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Sheffield Doc/Fest Twenty: Project Wild Thing Review
Project Wild Thing is the name of an ambitious scheme created by award-winning filmmaker David…