Film Festivals
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FilmJuho Kuosmanen on The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki is about an unassuming Finnish boxer who has his nation's hopes pinned on his success. We speak to its directo... Read more »| 22 Feb 2017 -
FilmLipstick Under My Burkha
An unflinching drama observing the depths of women’s suffering in contemporary Indian society. Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
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The Seasons in Quincy: Four Portraits of John Berger
A quartet of essay film portraying the great writer, artist and critic John Berger Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
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Bodkin Ras
Documentary and fiction collide in this tale of a mysterious stranger's arrival in a Scottish town Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
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Brutal action flick from Indonesia featuring Raid star Iko Uwais Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
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Angry Inuk
Documentary looking at seal hunting from the point of view of an Inuit community who see it as a way of life Read more »| 21 Feb 2017
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Graduation
Great Romanian new wave director Cristian Mungiu returns with another beautifully structured film about a family mired in a suspenseful web of compromises Read more »| 21 Feb 2017 -
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Way of the Gun: Cinema's most underrated shootouts
Ahead of Ben Wheatley's new film Free Fire, we pay tribute to some of cinemas great, but under-appreciated, gun fights. Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
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Illegitimate
A black comedy-infused drama from Romania taking on two tough subjects: abortion and incest Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
FilmIn Praise of the visionary Gore Verbinski
Ahead of GFF's screening of A Cure for Wellness, one writer takes a look at the career of its mercurial director, Gore Verbinski, one of the more divisive Hollywood directors regularly handed big budgets Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
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In the Radiant City
Rachel Lambert's debut about a dysfunctional family in the Deep South is flawed but promising Read more »| 20 Feb 2017 -
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Paradise
Veteran Russian filmmaker Andrei Konchalovsy stretches plausibility with an experimental take on the Holocaust drama Read more »| 19 Feb 2017 -
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Louise by the Shore
Veteran French animator Jean-François Laguionie's latest centres on a septuagenarian who finds herself abandoned in an off-season holiday resort Read more »| 19 Feb 2017 -
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Salt and Fire
Werner Herzog reunites with Michael Shannon for a fitfully amusing but largely stilted eco-thriller Read more »| 19 Feb 2017 -
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Soul on a String
A beguiling combination of Western and Buddhist parable, Zhang Yang’s latest is a beautiful and thought-provoking work which suffers from being overlong and narratively unfocused Read more »| 19 Feb 2017