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Border
Tina works in customs at a Swedish ferry terminal. She is a valuable member of the team because she has an amazing sense of smell. Tina is particularly ugly. One day she processes a passenger she finds...
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Woman at War
Hella is a much-loved choirmaster and secret eco-warrior. She also has a 3 piece band that appears wherever she is to provide a soundtrack for her life and when they aren't available there are 3...
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Mega Time Squad
Mega Time Squad is a slightly fanciful tale set in Thames. Antony Tennet plays John, the feckless employee of local crime boss Shelton. John is prevailed upon to stage a heist against the local triad,...
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Wajib- The Wedding Invitation
Like "The Reports on Sarah and Saleem", Wajib is a film that features Arab Israelis. A family story set in Nazareth, it uses the familiar scenario of adult child visiting the family home to illustrate...
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Girl
Girl features a teenage boy in the process of becoming a girl. She's called Lara (previously Victor) and has just moved cities along with very supportive father and much younger brother. She's been...
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Foxtrot
It was back to Israel for Foxtrot, but this time for was a Jewish Israeli film, Like Wajib it was a family drama, but unlike Wajib it features Jewish Israelis and we're talking a funeral rather than a...
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Capharnaüm
Capharnaüm or Capernaum is a confusing title. Merriam Webster defines capharnaum as a confused jumble or a place marked by a disorderly accumulation of objects. While chaos is an apt description of the...
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Ava is an sixteen year old high school student in Tehran. She plays the violin, hangs out with her friends, experiments with make up and has a bit of thing for her friend's brother, with whom she plays...
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Disobedience
I went to Disobedience because I enjoyed the book, which isn't always a good idea but worked out all right on this occasion. It probably helps that it's quite a few years since I read the book, so I...
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The World Is Yours
This year's French comedy is the crime caper The World is Yours which, strangely, has two French titles Le monde est à toi and Le monde ou rien. If you want a nice, polite, politically correct French...
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The Insult
Two political Lebanese courtroom dramas in one festival sounds like more than a coincidence.The Insult opens with a Christian Phalangist Party rally celebrating election victory. Tony Hanna, who owns a...
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Three Identical Strangers
A good documentary should tell you stuff you didn't know and be engaging while it does it. This film has a pretty interesting premise, triplets separated at birth who grew up not knowing they were...
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A Kid Like Jake
Jake is the only child of professional parents in the suburbs of New York City. He's five and his parents are looking for a primary school for him. The kind of primary school they'd like to send him to...
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Fly By Night
Do you like your gangland boss to chuckle and gloat over his victims? Do you like your detective to be cool and suave? Do you like to see your protagonists trapped in an impossible situation? Fly By...
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I have never seen a Punch & Judy puppet show. I'm too young and/or too far removed from the United Kingdom. It is one of those things that hover on the edge of my cultural consciousness, alongside...
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High Life
Starting with an astronaut alone on a spaceship with a baby girl, most of High Life is flashbacks on how we got here. You shouldn't go into a Claire Denisfilm expecting everything to make sense. Though...
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Aniara
Are two sci-fi films about people travelling for a long time on spaceships in the same film festival a coincidence? Aniara is a Swedish film based on an epic poem from 1956 about a huge spaceship...
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Monos
Phrases such as "Like Lord of the Flies", "Apocalypse Now on shrooms", "In the place of warfare are bizarre rituals, horny hook-ups and campfire raves", and "a tense, off-kilter deep dive into...
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A white white day
When someone you're close to dies, maybe you go through a "process", or the seven stages of grief, or maybe grief is different for everyone. A white, white day is a depiction of a grief-stricken man...
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The Nightingale
Jennifer Kent is best known for her controversial horror film The Babadook. Her latest film is set in Tasmania during the convict era and centres around Clare an Irish convict who has served her time,...
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Take Me Somewhere Nice
Where does Alma keep her cellphone? In Take Me Somewhere Nice, we often see her making calls, but we never see her put it away. She has no pockets or bag (or at least not one she can open) and she...
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God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya
In Macedonia, on 19 January they celebrate the Baptism of Jesus Christ (Vodici or Epiphany), priests throw a cross into a river or lake and the person who gets it first is blessed. In Stip in 2014 a...
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The Art of Self-Defense
You are an American guy that has been mugged. A) Do you buy a gun? B) Do you enrol in a self-defence class?Casey (Jesse Eisenberg) faces this decision on his voyage of self-improvement and recovery....
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The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil
The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil is not an imaginative film title, but at least we have a pretty good idea what the film is about. Detective Jung Tae-seok is a tough, cynical cop who has a personal...
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Births, Deaths & Marriages
Dean doesn't show up for his own wedding leaving Sinead pissed off but this is overshadowed by grandma dying later the same day meanwhile, Katherine has had a contraction. Set over 2 days in 1994,...
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