The Witness
Scriptwriter-director Nader Saeivar is known for his collaboration with Iranian film luminary Jafar Panah, who has also visited Sodankylä. Panah... View Article
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Universal Language
One might have to be proficient in esperanto like Canadian director Matthew Rankin to be able to construct such a... View Article
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Visiting Hours
Two women from vastly different walks of life meet in a prison in Bordeaux, both there to visit their incarcerated... View Article
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The New Year That Never Came
”Romania apparently only produces good films”, stated film critic Peter von Bagh once when commenting on the country’s festival entries.... View Article
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The Other Way Around
The latest film by Jonás Trueba—who visited the Midnight Sun Film Festival with his father Fernando in 2016—begins in the... View Article
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The Mohican
France’s largest island with its 300 000 inhabitants, Corsica, serves as the conflicted setting in Frédéric Farrucci’s second full-length feature.... View Article
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O
First, a little note: The title of the film is not the letter O, but rather a circle. It is... View Article
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Love
Urologist Marianne is not interested in a relationship, yet her friend is trying to set her up with a divorced... View Article
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Lesson Learned
Hungarian director Bálint Szimler’s first narrative feature Lesson Learned, which was awarded at Locarno, takes an interesting approach to the... View Article
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Intercepted
There have been impressive films about the war in Ukraine, such as from director Sergei Loznitsa (guest of the festival... View Article
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