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Glasgow Film Festival · 2016

Glasgow Film Festival 2016

Stranger Than Fiction

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10 films · 7 reviews

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Cain's Children ((Káin Gyermekei)

Three men who have been incarcerated all their adult lives strive to rehabilitate themselves and work out where they go from here.

(Country: Hungary, France; Year: 2014; Director: Marcell Gerö)

The Colours Of The Alphabet

A year in the life of a Zambian school where the teacher speaks one local language, her pupils another, and she must get them all to learn English.

(Country: New Zealand, UK, Zambia; Year: 2015; Director: Alastair Cole)

Favula

Review preview for Favula

The music is an intensely emotional force within the film, and effectively acts as an interpretive guide for the audience in relation to the images of poetic abstraction.

Rebecca Naughten · 3.5 out of 5
A cross between Snow White and Cinderella set in a tropical jungle.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2014; Director: Raúl Perrone; Writer: Raúl Perrone; Stars: Lucia Ozan, Nix Noise, Aleli Sueldo, Sara Navarro, Sergio Boggio, Juan Rodriguez)

Full review See: D'A Festival preview

Finders Keepers

Review preview for Finders Keepers

The film is a hodge-podge of archive clips and interview material but it just about gels and a host of smaller scale family stories round it out nicely.

Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
A documentary about the conflict that ensued after one man unwittingly purchased another man's amputated leg in an auction.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Bryan Carberry, J Clay Tweel; Stars: Shannon Whisnant, John Wood)

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Frame By Frame

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Even though the structure of the film is fairly formulaic it opens a window onto worlds rarely glimpsed from outside.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A documentary about Afghan photojournalists.

(Country: Afghanistan; Year: 2015; Director: Alexandria Bombach, Mo Scarpelli; Stars: Massoud Hossaini, Wakil Kohsar, Najibullah Musafer, Farzana Wahidy)

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Hitchcock/Truffaut

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Hitchcock/Truffaut has the intriguing aura of a first episode with all the questions answered easily producing 500 more to be asked.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
Filmmakers talk about the influence of Truffaut's book Cinema According To Hitchcock.

(Country: France, US; Year: 2015; Director: Kent Jones; Writer: Kent Jones, Serge Toubiana; Stars: Wes Anderson, Olivier Assayas, Peter Bogdanovich, Arnaud Desplechin, David Fincher, James Gray, Alfred Hitchcock, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Richard Linklater, Paul Schrader, Martin Scorsese, François Truffaut)

Full review See: Kent Jones in conversation on Hitchcock/Truffaut

I Am Belfast

Review preview for I Am Belfast

In his customary style, Cousins makes a lot of points, not all of them hitting home.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
A cinematic essay about the city.

(Country: UK; Year: 2015; Director: Mark Cousins; Writer: Mark Cousins; Stars: Richard Buick, Simon Millar, Shane McCaffrey, Helena Bereen, Felicity McKee)

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Peace Officer

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Peace Officer is an interesting film because of its balance.

Jennie Kermode · 3.5 out of 5
The man who established Utah's first SWAT team investigates the death of his son-in-law at the hands of another SWAT team, unwilling to accept the official ruling.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Brad Barber, Scott Christopherson; Stars: William Lawrence)

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The Pearl Button (Le Bouton de Nacre)

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Looking at all these themes on paper, there is no way they should be able to co-exist within the same film, let alone do so in harmony, but Guzmán lets each wave of thought flow over the other, tributaries of history gathering to a ocean of argument.

Amber Wilkinson · 5 out of 5
Water, the longest border in Chile, also holds the secret of two mysterious buttons which were found on its ocean floor.

(Country: Chile, France, Spain; Year: 2015; Director: Patricio Guzmán; Writer: Patricio Guzmán)

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The Propaganda Game

Documentary analysing the different propaganda techniques and strategies, focussing on the surprising and always prominent case of North Korea.

(Country: US, France, Germany, Spain, China, North Korea; Year: 2014; Director: Álvaro Longoria; Writer: Álvaro Longoria)