This one will stick in your mind whether you love it or hate it. It’s like Fish Tank meets Kajillionaire.
Continue readingHoard (2023)
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The title means ‘queens’ and we are immersed in a fractured family in Peru in the 70s. It’s the start of 10 years of dictatorship, at a time where inflation is doubling overnight and there is increasing unrest and violence in the streets.
Continue readingIntercepted (2024)
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I found this documentary hard going. If I’d seen it at the start of the festival and less tired, I might have been awed by the technique of overlapping footage with disconnected but meaningful audio.
Continue readingThe Story of Souleymane (L’histoire de Souleymane) (2024)
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I had heard a buzz about this French drama by Boris Lojkine which can be a blessing or a curse. Gladly, the rumours were true.
Continue readingBlackout (2023)
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Late night B grade horror is a bit of a MIFF treat but I think I knew 10 minutes in that this one was not going to be a ‘so bad, it’s good one’.
Continue readingMenus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros (2023)
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No Other Land (2024)
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I remember feeling similarly shell-shocked after For Sama. There is something devastatingly compelling about first person footage during wartime and with No Other Land, it wasn’t even officially a war.
Continue readingSecret Mall Apartment (2024)
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This is one of those delightful stories you can’t believe is true but you’re so glad it is.
Continue readingMy Sunshine (2024)
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Armand (2024)
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Armand starts out with a good and interesting premise. A single mother, Elizabeth (Renate Reinsve who was in The Worst Person in the World which has a similar vibe to this film) is called into her six-year-old son Armand’s primary school for a meeting.
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