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Mostra De Valencia

18 October – 28 October 2018

The festival was reborn in 2018 after a six-year hiatus under new festival director Eduardo Guillot. This year's festival opened with Valencian film M'esperas on October 18 and will close with its prize winners on October 28.

This year, the festival gave honorary awards to The Lobster and Dogtooth writer Efthymis Filippou and Blue Is The Warmest Colour director Abdellatif Kechiche. There were also homage sections dedicated to producer Josep Anton Perez Giner and filmmaker Carles Santos.

We'd like to thank Visit Valencia for helping to facilitate our attendance at the festival. You can read more about the city at visitvalencia.com

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  • Let The Corpses Tan
    Review preview for Let The Corpses Tan

    Not every risky idea works, but where they are successful, the results are dazzling.

    Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
    A woman's summer retreat becomes the scene for a showdown after a gang come looking for a hideout, pursued by the police.
  • Capernaum
    Review preview for Capernaum

    You might notice the elegance of composition while knowing that the place contains so much human suffering.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    A child rebels against the life imposed upon him.
  • The Reports On Sarah And Saleem
    Review preview for The Reports On Sarah And Saleem

    Muayad Alayan's beautifully observed, studiously discomfiting film has a lot to say about power and privilege.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A man and a woman from two disparate worlds meet at nights just to have sex. However, when they get caught, the extra-marital relationship between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man causes tensions in the socio-politically divided Jerusalem.
  • Secret Ingredient
    Review preview for Secret Ingredient

    For Stavreski, its character first and plot second while commentary comes along for the ride, as he focuses on the dad and son relationship at the film's heart.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A mechanic steals a stash of marijuana to use as a cure for his dad... only to find himself chased by dealers and hounded by people who think he's a healer.
  • Another Day Of Life
    Review preview for Another Day Of Life

    Measured but naturally emotional recollections dovetail with the more impressionistic animated segments to scrutinise the psyche of war.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    True story of a reporter who took a seemingly suicidal road trip into the heart of the civil war in Angola in the 70s.
  • The Truk
    Review preview for The Truk

    Where most films of this ilk are driven by aggression, Marx instead pushes hers forward with a mix of melancholy, quiet desperation and futility.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    An ex-con makes a plan with his friend to travel from rave to rave selling water and Ketamine from their food truck.
  • Wajib
    Review preview for Wajib

    Annemarie Jacir's characters may not leave the city of Nazareth as they take a circular road trip in Wajib but the emotional distance they travel is considerable.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A father and his son come together to deliver wedding invitations.
  • Pity
    Review preview for Pity

    Yannis Drakopoulos is on fine form in the central role and there are some great supporting performances.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    The story of a man who feels happy only when he is unhappy: addicted to sadness, with such need for pity, that he’s willing to do everything to evoke it from others. This is the life of a man in a world not cruel enough for him.
  • Le Trou
    Review preview for Le Trou

    The most compelling aspect of the film is it's sheer physicality.

    Amber Wilkinson · 5 out of 5
    Four inmates try to tunnel out of a prison.
  • Touchez Pas Au Grisbi
    Review preview for Touchez Pas Au Grisbi

    There will be plot developments involving kidnap, the loot as ransom and a gunfight but those are really just the action icing on the cake of what is, at heart, a character study and a dissection of friendship.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
    After a bullion heist, two gangsters face a test of friendship when one of them is kidnapped.

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