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Basqueing in it
RITA DI SANTO relishes the mix of traditional and innovative films on offer, and particularly the rich sample of new Latin American work
Janet Novas in The Rye Horn
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KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
IN the beautiful Basque country, the 71st San Sebastian Film Festival maintained its innovative spirit, and audacious political character.
This year the Golden Shell Award went to Spanish director Jaione Camborda for The Rye Horn, a film about solidarity and sisterhood set during the Franco regime.
Maria, a solitary midwife, who lives on an island near Galicia, secretly helps young women terminate their pregnancies, but when one of her patients dies, she must flee to Portugal. The escape drives her out of solitude, as always, when a woman comes forward to help.
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RITA DI SANTO gives us a first look at some extraordinary new films that examine outsiders, migrants, belonging and social abuse
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