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• (Yak) Butter Lamp (2013)

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  Refined and illuminating.

  A young photographer takes pictures of Tibetan nomads.
• Yellow (2012)

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  An astonishing and compelling assemblage of contradictions: it is messy yet controlled; enigmatic and elliptical yet clean and crystal-clear; and it casts a modern eye back on the old school.

  A serial killer makes taunting phone calls.
• Young Anes (2006)

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  Drummond is certainly developing a directorial style, since it is immediately recognisable as his work.

  Teenage mums talk about their lives in Dundee.
• The Young Black Stallion (2003)

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  A sweet, old-fashioned Disney film.

  The story of a friendship between a girl and a horse.
• Your Mother And I (2016)

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  McKellar delivers the huge chunks adeptly but there is simply monologue overload with little in the way of visual invention to lift it.

  Johnna's dad changed the world. Or so he says.
• Youth (2007)

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  Quite brilliantly acted and written.

  Tryptich of scenes examining adolescence.
• You Are 10 Years Old? (2005)

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  This film about boredom is, unfortunately, too boring.

  Examining the boredom factor amongst adults playing kids.
• You Are Not I (1981)

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  Exquisite.

  The director's long-lost debut, described by Cahiers du Cinéma as one of the best made movies of the 1980s.
• Yard Kings (2020)

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  This is grain as grit, the fuzziness of focus the grip of grime across everything we see.

  The film follows the story of Ellie, a young girl from a violent home, who decides to confront the situation.
• Yellow (2023)

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  Through its polite small talk and what goes unsaid, the film screams out for justice for Afghan women.

  In Taliban controlled Afghanistan, Laili walks into a Chadari store in Kabul to buy her first full body veil and face a new future.
• Yellow Cake (2009)

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  Darkly funny and beautiful to look at.

  Animated satire exploring oppression and rebellion.
• You're The Stranger Here (2008)

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  Kate Cook as Margot is stunning.

  Margot has a crazy leg. She lives in a fascist regime where they shoot people with crazy legs.
• Your Father Was Born 100 Years Ago And So Was The Nakba (2017)

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  Victor Breiss creates sound that has echoes, distortions, replacements.

  A Palestinian grandmother returns to her hometown through Google Maps Streetview.
• Your Mountain Is Waiting (2022)

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  It does not seek to put ducks in a row but it still endeavours to array animal, vegetable, mineral.

  A woman stops listening to her intuition and her life begins to suffer. After a strange encounter, she starts to reassess and begins her journey of self-discovery.
• Your Reality (2019)

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  Anders’ performance is so fluid, so perfectly judged that over the course of 20 minutes she carries us through a significant psychological shift without doing anything that seems abrupt or out of character.

  After moving in with her boyfriend, a successful young marketing executive becomes increasingly unsure of her ability to trust her own memory.
• You Are A Lesbian Vampire (2008)

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  A satirical look at the experience of navigating relationships within a small dating pool.

  A vampire in a prairie city reflects on whether or not she can sustain a successful relationship with her mortal girlfriend.
• You Must Everywhere Wander (2021)

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  There’s a balance of energies here that we rarely see onscreen.

  A queer masculine bodyscape where the spices used in Chinese cooking grow as spectacular natural landscapes.
• You Wouldn't Understand (2020)

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  A simple idea but very nicely executed.

  An idyllic picnic of one is upended after the arrival of a stranger.
• Yuck! (2024)

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  It’s rare to see these pivotal moments in life depicted with such gusto.

  Running loose around a campsite, a group of kids are revolted by the sight of people kissing. One boy is especially troubled, however, as he's beginning to feel the urge to try it himself.