A wrapped untouched candy. This would be a good alternative title, although Happy Holidays is so deeply ironic.
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The Python Hunt (2025)
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This rather endearing and slightly mad documentary about hunting for Burmese pythons in the Florida Everglades is exactly what you’d expect from a movie about hunting pythons in the Florida Everglades but then a little bit more.
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I think this one is going to be polarising. Judging by the impassioned conversations I had with fellow MIFF goers after the film, I can see there are many different takes on its confronting structure and content.
Continue readingThe Wave (La Ola)(2025)
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Ok. I loved this. I don’t think it will be everyone’s cup of tea but from the first bolshie feminist dance number, I was hooked.
Continue readingMistress Dispeller (2024)
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Not about a woman called Dispeller but about a legitimate practice in China where wives, who find out their husbands are cheating on them, employee someone to dispel the mistress – a mistress dispeller.
Continue readingWe Bury the Dead (2024)
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Zombie movie – tick. Set in Tasmania – tick. Starring Daisy Ridley – okay, I can go with that.
Continue readingLittle Trouble Girls (Kaj ti je deklica)(2025)
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Slovenian director Urska Djukic gives us a convincing meditation on emerging teenage identity and sexuality in a repressive Catholic culture.
Continue readingYoung Mothers (Jeunes Mères) (2025)
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I’ve wavered a little in what I feel about this absorbing look at teenage motherhood. Does it get under the skin of these young women or are we to believe their biggest stressors will be boyfriends and poor relationships with their own mothers?
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I’m not sure if it’s just that I hit the day five morning crash of MIFF but I struggled to keep my eyes open in this Irish-made, quietly languid documentary about a Ukrainian health sanatorium that seems stuck in the 80s.
Continue readingBy Design (2025)
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Really I shouldn’t be surprised that a film that is about a woman who wants to be a chair ends up being an absurd and surrealist set piece.
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