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New Directors/New Films

20 March – 31 March 2013

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Now in its 42nd year, the celebration of new voices in cinema will screen 25 features and 17 short films.

The festival will open with Blue Caprice on March 20 and close with Our Nixon on March 31.

Other years (14)

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Latest reviews

  • They Will Return
    Review preview for They Will Return

    Riding along on the strength of its central mystery, They Will Return just about gets away with its unevenly paced story and variable acting.

    Jennie Kermode · 3 out of 5
    Two children are mysteriously abandoned by their parents.
  • Our Nixon
    Review preview for Our Nixon

    A fascinating watch.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Super-8 film shot by Nixon's aides documenting the presidency.
  • The Act Of Killing
    Review preview for The Act Of Killing

    Unquestionably and understandably harrowing, in places unbearably so, this reflection upon acts of murder, genocide and torture, told by the perpetrators themselves, is a masterpiece.

    Merlin Harries · 5 out of 5
    People responsible for the mass murder of suspeced Communists at the onset of the military regime in 1965 are challenged to restage their actions and question the pride they still take in them.
  • The Color Of The Chameleon
    Review preview for The Color Of The Chameleon

    Will best reward those who are prepared to pay attention and stick with its twirls and pirouettes until the complex pay-off.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    A young misfit is recruited to infiltrate a book club as a spy, with comic consequences.
  • Emperor Vists The Hell
    Review preview for Emperor Vists The Hell

    Feels like an attempt to stretch out what should really exist as a short film.

    Robert Munro · 2 out of 5
    A powerful man who offends a divine messenger is condemned to an early death but told he can win a second chance if he can placate the ghosts of his enemies.
  • Stories We Tell
    Review preview for Stories We Tell

    What is not in doubt is the raw emotion in this work - from Polley quivering with nervous energy as she watches her father read some of the more revelatory pieces of script - to the visible impact airing the family's dirty linen in public has on her sibli

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Sarah Polley investigates secrets in her own family.
  • People's Park
    Review preview for People's Park

    Sniadecki and Cohn draw us into this space at the same time as frustrating all notions of narrative, momentum or rhythm.

    Michael Pattison · 3 out of 5
    A single tracking shot captures life in the People's Park in Chengdu, China.
  • Lions
    Review preview for Lions

    Jazmin López’s debut feature is in narrative terms a bit too foggy to sustain one’s emotional engagement.

    Michael Pattison · 2.5 out of 5
    Five young people are lost in a forest - and perhaps in time itself.
  • Viola
    Review preview for Viola

    Being disorientated is part of the game of art - from William Shakespeare to the present.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 4 out of 5
    The lines between fiction and reality blur for an all-female Shakespeare troupe.
  • Blue Caprice
    Review preview for Blue Caprice

    When it comes to what ultimately drove these two men to kill, Porto and Moors are more interested in difficult questions than easy answers and their film hits its target hard.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    Psychological drama about the men responsible for the Beltway sniper attacks.

A–Z of New Directors/New Films 2013 reviews

Features

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