All articles by Wendy Ide
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FeaturesFilms of the year 2024: Wendy Ide
Wendy Ide joined Screen in 2015 as a UK-based critic, and is also the chief film critic for The Observer
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Reviews‘Sima’s Song’: Red Sea Review
Two women struggle to maintain their friendship in the Afghanistan tinder-box of the 1970s as the Russians invade
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Reviews‘Seeking Haven For Mr Rambo’: Red Sea Review
Promising Egyptian debut draws on the powerful bond between one man and his dog
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Reviews‘Silent City Driver’: Tallinn Review
Tallinn winner Sengedorj Janchivdor’s powerful drama paces the streets of Ulaanbataar at night
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Reviews‘Johatsu’: Tallinn Review
Chilly Lithuanian drama sees a morgue worker consumed by the case of a missing man
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Reviews‘Pink Lady’: Tallinn Review
Sensitive portrait of a marriage under strain in Jerusalem’s Hasidic Jewish community
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Reviews‘Wishing On A Star’: Tallinn Review
Hybrid documentary follows an Italian astrologer who sends people around the world in search of their dreams
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Reviews‘Out Of Control’: Tallinn Review
Omar Sy and Elodie Bouchez star in Anne Le Ny’s domestic drama set in Brittany
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Reviews‘The Exalted’: Tallinn Review
Highly-effective satire focuses on an elite Latvian couple whose lifestyle is about to implode
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Reviews‘Reading Lolita In Tehran’: Tallinn Review
Golshifteh Farahani plays a literary professor trying to stem the tide of repression in revolutionary Iran
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Reviews‘Carnival Is Over’: Tallinn Review
A couple attempt to escape Brazil’s criminal underworld in Fernando Coimbra’s darkly comic drama
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Reviews’Lust In The Rain’: Tokyo Review
Ambitious, uneven erotic love triangle drama set in 1940s Japan
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Reviews‘The Unseen Sister’: Tokyo Review
Midi Zi’s first China-shot feature is a thriller starring Zhao Yiling
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Reviews‘Teki Cometh’: Tokyo Review
A retired university professor faces an unseen enemy in this frighteningly-effective drama from Japan
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Reviews’Barbara Morgenstern: Doing It For Love’: DOK Leipzig Review
Niche documentary follows German electro-pop musician Barbara Morgenstern as she creates her new album
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Reviews‘The Last Dance’: Tokyo Review
Dayo Wong and Michael Hui are the odd couple at the heart of this Hong Kong drama set in a Taoist funeral home
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Reviews‘My Friend An Delie’: Tokyo Review
Chinese actor Dong Zijian makes his directorial debut with this significant drama
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Reviews‘Daughter’s Daughter’: Tokyo Review
Huang Xi’s drama stars Sylvia Chang in an elegant story of motherhood and loss
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Reviews‘Israel Palestine On Swedish TV 1958-1989’: Tokyo Review
Göran Hugo Olsson digs into the archives for this sobering look at the Middle East conflict
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Reviews‘11 Rebels’: Tokyo Review
Tokyo opens with a blisteringly old-fashioned Samurai slice-’em-up