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‘Silent City Driver’: Tallinn Review
Tallinn winner Sengedorj Janchivdor’s powerful drama paces the streets of Ulaanbataar at night
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‘Trains’: IDFA Review
IDFA top prize-winner is a timeless train trip through black-and-white archive footage
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‘Spellbound’: Review
Rachel Zegler, Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem lend their voices to Netflix’s family animation
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‘Johatsu’: Tallinn Review
Chilly Lithuanian drama sees a morgue worker consumed by the case of a missing man
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‘Pink Lady’: Tallinn Review
Sensitive portrait of a marriage under strain in Jerusalem’s Hasidic Jewish community
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‘Writing Hawa’: IDFA Review
IDFA breakout charts one Afghan mother’s quest to educate herself - just as the Taliban rolls into Kabul
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‘Spring Came On Laughing’: Cairo Review
Heightened Cairo-set melodrama features five tales of fracturing female relationships
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‘An American Pastoral’: IDFA Review
Timely documentary tracks small-town school board elections in Pennsylvania
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‘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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‘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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‘The Shadow Scholars’: IDFA Review
Steve McQueen-produced doc shines a light on Kenya’s academic ghostwriter-for-hire industry
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‘The Propagandist’: IDFA Review
Chilling portrait of Dutch filmmaker and Nazi propagandist Jan Teunissen
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‘A Want In Her’: IDFA Review
Affecting documentary sees Irish artist Myrid Carten turn her camera on her troubled mother
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‘The Shepherd And The Bear’: IDFA Review
Immersive documentary follows the controversial reintroduction of wild bears to the remote French Pyrenees
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‘About A Hero’: IDFA Review
IDFA opener is an uneven AI-generated hybrid murder mystery in the style of Werner Herzog
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‘The Exalted’: Tallinn Review
Highly-effective satire focuses on an elite Latvian couple whose lifestyle is about to implode
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‘Passing Dreams’: Cairo Review
Cairo opens with a defiantly upbeat Palestinian road movie about a young boy and his missing pigeon
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‘Reading Lolita In Tehran’: Tallinn Review
Golshifteh Farahani plays a literary professor trying to stem the tide of repression in revolutionary Iran