All articles by Wendy Ide – Page 5
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Reviews‘Dahomey’: Berlin Review
The repatriation of stolen treasures to Benin provokes this agile, cerebral documentary by Mati Diop
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Reviews‘A Family’: Berlin Review
French author Christine Angot confronts her family about her father’s sexual abuse
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Reviews‘Treasure’: Berlin Review
Lena Dunham and Stephen Fry play a Jewish father and daughter returning to Poland after the fall of the Iron Curtain
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Reviews‘Cuckoo’: Berlin Review
Hunter Schafer impresses in this ’entertainingly-deranged’ horror from Tilman Singer, set in the Bavarian Alps
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Reviews‘My Favourite Cake’: Berlin Review
A lonely septuagenarian grabs a second chance at happiness in this rich tragicomedy from Iran
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Reviews‘Rei’: Rotterdam Review
Rotterdam’s Tiger winner is an ambitious debut from actor-turned-filmmaker Toshihiko Tanaka
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Reviews‘The Old Bachelor’: Rotterdam Review
Rotterdam Big Screen winner is a vision of Iran rarely seen on screen
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Reviews‘Portrait Of A Certain Orient’: Rotterdam Review
A brother and sister depart 1940s Lebanon for a new life in Brazil in the latest from Marcelo Gomes
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Reviews‘Swimming Home’: Rotterdam Review
An unexpected house guest upsets a family dynamic in this UK adaptation of the Man Booker Prize-nominated novel
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Reviews‘The Worst Man In London’: Rotterdam Review
Real-life art dealer Charles Augustus Howell is the eponymous cad of this 19th-century period piece
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Reviews‘Flathead’: Rotterdam Review
Docu-fiction follows a raddled septuagenarian returning to his blue-collar childhood home in Australia
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Reviews‘Milk Teeth’: Rotterdam Review
A child threatens the security of an isolated village in this atmospheric feature debut from Swiss director Sophia Bosch
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Reviews‘Head South’: Rotterdam Review
A teenage boy embraces New Zealand’s late Seventies post-punk scene in Jonathan Oglivie’s Rotterdam opener
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Reviews‘Soundtrack To A Coup D’Etat’: Sundance Review
Outstanding documentary ties the democratic movement in Africa in the 1960s with Black US musicians used by the CIA as pawns in the Cold War
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Reviews‘Union’: Sundance Review
Stirring documentary follows Amazon workers in New York as they attempt to unionise
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Reviews‘Sujo’: Sundance Review
A Mexican boy must fight against the temptation of local gangs in this satisfying drama
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Reviews‘Ibelin’: Sundance Review
Norwegian documentary uncovers the full extent of a hardcore gamer’s online life after his untimely death
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FeaturesFilms of the year 2023: 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‘Norah’: Red Sea Review
Accomplished debut set in spectacular AlUla tracks the fallout from an exciting new arrival in a remote Saudi village
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Reviews‘Three’: Red Sea Review
Djinn genre outing from Dubai focuses on a clash between Western medicine and Arabic tradition